May 16, 2005—Wellman, Inc., an international Fortune 1000 corporation, was honored as Recycler of the Year at the annual Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) conference. Wellman, which manufactures fibers, plastic packaging and engineering resins, is one of the world’s largest recyclers of plastics, says the company.
Wellman is already considered the world’s largest recycler of PET bottles, reclaiming almost 3 billion annually around the globe with facilities in the US, Ireland, The Netherlands and France, notes the company.
The companys primary manufacturing partner is Georgia Carpet Processing, which secures the post consumer carpet flow and does the preliminary processing for Wellman.
For more about Wellman, visit the company Web site.
Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) is a joint industry-government effort to increase the amount of recycling and reuse of post-consumer carpet and reduce the amount of waste carpet going to landfills. For more information, visit the Web site.
