Grossman Announces Book Recycling Milestone

Book-Destruction.com, a division of the Grossman Group Inc. of Columbus, has announced through the first quarter of this year it has recycled, through certified destruction by grinding, more than 100 trailer loads of hardback books, soft cover books, catalogs, directories and corporate reports.

The 100 trailer loads equates to approximately 4.2 million pounds, according to a news release from the company.

The majority of the books come from obsolete inventories of book printers, publishers, distributors, libraries, schools and multiple collection sites throughout the Midwest. Book-Destruction.com receives books from all over the country, but most of the suppliers are within 1,000 miles of Columbus, or its partner operations in Tennessee and Wisconsin. Once recycled, the materials are then baled and shipped to paper mills, roofers or insulators to be converted into new products.

More information about the program is available at www.Book-Destruction.com.

The company has also announced that it is undergoing some corporate restructuring.

“Our company and the industry have had dramatic changes over the past few years,” says Steve Grossman, president of the Grossman Group. “We have changed our focus from government programs to private partnerships, which we feel offer greater responsiveness and flexibility to compete in today’s environment.

“We have had great growth in our Industrialbags.com and marketing divisions,” he continues. “Coupled with intense growth of interest in recycling, we felt each of these business segments need and deserve a separate corporate structure and resources to facilitate expansion. Instead of trying to balance three businesses, our new organization allows each company to devote its full energies to its business.”

A new corporation, Industrialbags.com Inc. will continue the Grossman Group’s Industrialbags.com division’s business of manufacturing and sales of industrial strength bagging lumber wrap and other poly materials. The company’s recycling activities, including its recycling operations at its plant, which is subleased from SWACO in Columbus, are being transferred to Grossman Environmental Recycling Inc. The Grossman Group Inc. will focus on its materials marketing business and environmental consulting.

More information is available at www.thegrossmangroup.com.