Eastman and Food City recycling program begins - WCYB
Eastman and Food City recycling program begins
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WCYB) — Eastman and Food City have started a new recycling initiative.
On Wednesday, the first of three plastic recycling collection bins will be located at Food City Supermarket locations in Kingsport.
Those bins will enable customers to drop off their plastic waste in the area since curbside pickup is no longer available.
The collected plastic will then be sorted and processed by Eastman's new mixed plastics processing facility. It's part of the new molecular recycling plant and is the largest material-to-material recycling facility in the world.
You can find a QR Code on the recycle bins that will take you to a website with instructions on what you can and can't be recycled. Food City and Eastman plan to expand the program to other stories in the future.
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