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GreenFiber Introduces Community Paper Recycling Program in the Bahamas

Initiative Designed To Keep Used Phone Books Out of Limited Landfill Space

05/20/2010

US GreenFiber, LLC has expanded its Community Paper Recycling Program to the tropics, partnering with Bahamas Telecommunications Company Limited and Atlantis Caribbean Line Limited to keep used phone books out of Bahamian landfills and recycle them into sustainable product.

GreenFiber, the United States' leading manufacturer of natural fiber insulation, launched its recycling program several years ago in the U.S. in cities where it has manufacturing facilities. By working with community organizations such as schools, libraries and businesses to collect newspapers, phone books, cardboard and papers, GreenFiber has diverted more than 1 million tons of paper out of landfills. The paper products are then used to manufacture GreenFiber's natural fiber insulation that is used in homes and commercial buildings to aid in energy efficiency.

In the Bahamas' islands of New Provence, home to Nassau, and Grand Bahama, home to Freeport, the three companies plan to collect the thousands of directories that would otherwise accumulate in landfills on the Bahamian islands. Given the small size of the islands, designated landfill space is limited for traditional garbage. The product will be shipped to the North Carolina coast and delivered to GreenFiber's Charlotte, N.C., facility.

"The GreenFiber Community Paper Recycling Program has provided great partnership opportunities for our communities, and we are excited to take this program to the Bahamas so that residents can participate in recycling initiatives to keep their islands beautiful,” said Dennis Barrineau, president, GreenFiber. "We are incredibly proud of the part we are able to play in both helping to limit the space needed for landfills and then using those redirected materials to create sustainable product.”

GreenFiber is committed to the environment; it begins by diverting paper materials from landfills for its natural fiber insulation to a manufacturing process that requires ten times less energy than other types of insulation; it continues through local distribution models that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and it ultimately delivers value to homeowners with a natural fiber insulation product that provides increased energy savings.

Additionally, GreenFiber keeps 350,000 tons of paper out of landfills each year through recycling and Community Paper Recycling Programs. Refuse efficiency experts state that paper products account for 34 percent of landfill space -- enough office and writing paper each year to build a wall 12 feet high from Los Angeles to New York City.

Established in 2000 and headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., GreenFiber is the largest manufacturer of natural fiber insulation, fire and sound products and the only cellulose manufacturer to receive Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) certification for their natural fiber insulation product manufactured from 85 percent recycled content — 55 percent post-consumer and 30 percent pre-consumer, certificate number SCS-MC-02055. With manufacturing plants located throughout the United States that use local distribution models and require less transportation, GreenFiber products are sold to building supply retailers in the U.S. and Canada. For more information on GreenFiber, call customer service at 800-228-0024 or visit www.greenfiber.com.

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