2008 Recycling Business Development Grant Winners

In 2008, the N.C. Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance awarded 21 recycling business development grants, totaling $320,000.

For the 2008 grant round, criteria was included to give some weight to proposals that supported developing infrastructure in response to landfill ban legislation that passed the General Assembly in 2005 and will take effect in 2008. Items included in those bans are wooden pallets, rigid plastic containers, oil filters and oyster shells, with additional legislation requiring ABC permit holders to recycle.

The grants ranged from $5,000 to $23,000, and, if all the projects are successful, will create more than 39,000 tons of additional recycling capacity in North Carolina. Overall, DPPEA received 41 proposals requesting $1.2 million in funds. Selected projects include:

Waste Industries ($23,000) – Waste Industries (Raleigh) is currently developing extensive plans to expand its recycling services in all of its North Carolina market areas in order to assist ABC permitted businesses to comply with recent state legislation mandating the recycling of bottles and cans. Contact: Josh Thompson, (919) 855-5385.

San-Kawa LLC ($22,000) – San-Kawa (Albemarle) will manufacture glass products made from post-consumer glass. Glass products will contain at least 75 percent post-consumer glass. Sources for post-consumer glass feedstock will include ABC licensees and private consumers, as well as existing material recycling facilities. Contact: June Mabry, (704) 986-6060.

Green Coast Recycling ($21,000) – Green Coast (Wilmington) will meet the needs of its growing customer base with the purchase of a new recycling truck and residential and commercial containers. Contact: James Shelton, (910) 471-7747.

Foothills Sanitation & Recycling ($21,000) – Foothills (N. Wilkesboro) will begin a new program offering a pickup recycling service to ABC permit holders in the Wilkes, Ashe, Surry and Yadkin County areas to recycle plastic bottles, glass and metal cans pursuant to ABC legislation. Contact: Jeffery Miller, (336) 667-0500.

Resource Reformers LLC ($18,000) – Resource Reformers (Durham) will install a faster, more efficient method to process oil filters for recycling. This fully automated process will separate all components of the oil filter. The process also produces a clean steel product of much greater value than produced by the current crushing method. Contact: Tim Wilkinson, (919) 596-3500.

Shimar Recycling ($18,000) – Shimar (Durham) will be expanding operations to include an additional automated recycling truck and additional 95 gallon recycling carts to collect recyclables. Contact: Will Marley, (919) 680-6262.

Carolina Waste Disposal ($18,000) – Carolina Waste Disposal (Fayetteville) will address the collection, sorting, storage, preparation, delivery and end sale of ABC mandated recyclables: glass beverage containers, plastic beverage containers and aluminum cans. Contact: Mickey Sizemore, (910) 978-7034.

Hatteras Recycle LLC ($18,000) – Hatteras Recycle (Rodanthe) will expand existing service in the villages of Rodanthe, Waves and Salvo. This will include additional residential curbside service, additional campground service and additional restaurant service as well as expansion of service to Avon. Contact: Todd Phillips, (252) 987-2810.

Wayne Opportunity Center ($18,000) – Wayne Opportunity Center (Goldsboro) will expand recycling operations to allow the handling of recyclables from Goldsboro and other municipalities in Wayne County and the surrounding area. Contact: John Chance, (919) 735-5363.

Tri-County Environmental ($18,000) – Tri-County Environmental (Stanley) will purchase a roll-off truck for the purpose of collecting food waste. This material will be collected and transported back to its composting facility for use in creating a final compost product. Contact: Jim Lanier, (704) 263-8186.

Reflective Recycling ($16,000) – Reflective Recycling (Winston-Salem) will purchase a recycling truck with dump capabilities for beverage container pick up from customer locations. Contact: Bill Clark, (336) 251-1025.

Salvage America Inc. ($16,000) – Salvage America (Greensboro) will use an additional truck to move various products to market in a more efficient and timely manner. Contact: Chris Triolo, (336) 215-5228.

Simply Green Recycling Service ($16,000) – Simply Green Recycling (Morganton) will purchase a vehicle that has been outfitted for curbside recycling pickup to assist in service to commercial and residential customers. Contact: Stephanie Cates, (828) 437-1277.

Waste Management Recycle America – Plastics ($12,000) – WMRA – Plastics facility (Raleigh) will install an optical scanner to recover recycleable material that would normally go into the waste stream. Additional recovery will equal about two percent of the processed pounds, or 160,000 pounds per month. Contact: Christine Herman, (919) 280-7624.

Synergy Recycling LLC ($10,000) – Synergy (Mayodan) will purchase 48- and 53-foot trailers to place at municipalities and businesses to facilitate the accumulation and storage of scrap electronics in an efficient and cost effective manner. Contact: Joe Clayton, (336) 548-7014.

Think Green Recycle Service of Mooresville ($10,000) – Think Green (Mooresville) is focusing on the needs of local ABC permit holders and will also offer curbside service to all businesses and residents. The project involves the purchase of a collection truck for recyclable material. Contact: Patricia Doak, (704) 701-6922.

Wesbell Technologies ($10,000) – Wesbell (Durham) will implement an additional processing line for electronics at its facility. The new processing line will expand recycling operations and augment the predominantly manual disassembly processes currently in place. Contact: Glen Hardee, (919) 484-9719 x 232.

New Life Plastics Recycling ($10,000) – New Life Plastics (Burlington) will purchase and use laboratory-testing equipment to help more specifically identify plastic-scrap properties, increasing the material it is able to handle. Contact: Susan Newman, (336) 222-7775.

Keywell Inc. ($10,000) – Keywell (Monroe) purchases, processes and sells recycled metals. Specifically stainless steel, high temperature alloys (nickel-based) and titanium. Keywell plans to expand into a new facility in North Carolina, and will create between 30 and 50 jobs. Contact: Vincent Chevrier, (719) 569-0700 x 276.

TidySite LLC ($10,000) – TidySite (Raleigh) will purchase a compact skid steer/loader to better facilitate and expand the on-site sorting and handling capabilities of residential construction debris collected for builder/developer clients in Wake, Durham, Orange, Chatham, Franklin and Johnson counties. Contact: Michael Whitehead, (919) 875-8801.

Potters Industries Inc. ($5,000) – Potters (Apex) will purchase a recycled glass processor that can sort glass by color to allow recovery of clear glass for the purpose of creating highway safety products. Contact: Gordon Hill, (919) 362-7574.