P&G Picks Green Planet 21 for Project

Green Planet 21, headquartered in Oakland, Calif., has been chosen by the consumer products company Proctor & Gamble Co. to help it achieve zero landfill at its paper manufacturing facility in Box Elder County, Utah.

To start the process, Green Planet 21 began diverting 21 tons of paper mill sludge that was generated at P&G’s paper mill to its facility where it will be processed and reused in other wood- and paper-based products. Green Planet 21 will conduct processing for the facility at its 50,000-square foot facility in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Utah P&G plant is located on 750 acres with more than 600,000 square feet of manufacturing space, plus 400,000 square feet for its on-site distribution center. The Utah facility is the only P&G Family Care facility that is located in the Northwest.

In addition to the sludge, Green Planet will process paper, plastics, metals and old corrugated containers. The company says that less than 1 percent of all the materials that go through P&G’s plant will end up being landfilled.

In addition to the program in Utah, Green Planet 21 services other P&G paper mills in California.
Steve Sutta, Green Planet 21’s owner and founder, says, “They’ve chosen us to take them to zero landfill.  With the exception of a site in Los Angeles, we also are in the middle of taking every North America manufacturing facility for Gatorade to zero landfill; we took Frito Lay to zero landfill with its Fritos products, and now we’ll do the same for P&G with its Charmin and Bounty brands.”