Dart Container, located in Mason, Mich., will be the sole provider of foam cups at the at the annual Capitol City River Run. Further, the company will be collecting the cups on-site to be recycled into new products.
Dart is contributing more than 6,000 cups and collecting the cups to be recycled at its plant in Mason, where they accept used foam products for recycling at no cost to the public. Foam is ground up, converted to plastic resin pellets and sold for reuse as an ingredient in non-food service products, including picture frames or decorative molding.
The company is driving recycling efforts from its manufacturing facilities in Mason to more than 30 counties in the state. Last year, Dart recycled 200 tons of postconsumer foam in its Mason facility.
Dart most recently put together a one-day collection event for polystyrene in California at its recently held.