CLYDE, Ohio (February 9, 2022) – – Evergreen, a plastics recycling and manufacturing company owned by The Sterling Group, is heading into 2022 as one of North America’s three largest producers of food grade recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) thanks to…
Last year at this time, Evergreen collected and recycled two billion post-consumer PET bottles a year. Sure, that’s a lot of bottles, but considering how many we now collect and recycle – 11.6 billion a year – that was a…
Life doesn’t get any better than this: Evergreen had one incredible year in 2021. When we started, we were a single location, Ohio-based recycling and rPET manufacturing facility. Sure, we were collecting and processing two billion PET bottles a year and…
In 2015, the Oceanic Preservation Society released a documentary by Oscar-winning director Louis Psihoyos called Racing Extinction that predicted that by 2115, half of the world’s species would be gone. In a bold attempt to protect all life from mass…
Thursday, December 16 brought a big honor to our plastic recycling and rPET manufacturing plant in California. The City presented Evergreen Riverside with the 2021 Keep Riverside Clean + Beautiful Award. Accepting the award on behalf of our team was…
We’re going to talk trash for a minute here. Consider these stats gathered by the EPA in 2018: Each year, America sends 292.4 million tons of municipal solid waste to landfills. To put that in perspective, that’s nearly five pounds…
I am originally from Galway, New York, a small town of less than 4,000 people. When I was younger, I really wanted to be a pediatrician. I just love helping people. Once I got into college, I channeled that desire…
Working from home during the height of the pandemic and not being able to go out to eat, I found myself ordering carryout meals on a far too regular basis. I had valid excuses. My job at Evergreen keeps me…
