Brightmark announced its strategic partnership with Lewis Salvage, an independently owned recycling company based in Warsaw, Indiana, a location with the world's highest concentration of orthopedic design and manufacturing companies. By participating in Lewis Salvage's Minimized Landfill Recycling Program, the Brightmark Circularity Center in Ashley, Indiana, will receive plastics for recycling from medical device companies, orthopedic implant manufacturers, and packaging companies that were originally bound for landfills and incinerators. Year to date, Brightmark has been able to recycle approximately 400,000 pounds of plastic waste as a result of this strategic partnership.
Brightmark's circularity centers complement the existing mechanical recycling system, providing a circular solution that benefits communities with recycling infrastructure challenges.
This news follows Brightmark's announcement to invest $950 million in a new plastics circularity center in Thomaston, Georgia. The investment is expected to create nearly 200 advanced manufacturing jobs, enhance the regional recycling infrastructure, and stimulate economic growth and development in rural West Central Georgia.
