How Evergreen Works
Closing the Loop
In 2008, we launched a final, innovative step in the Evergreen Type 6 Nylon recycling process: the use of Evergreen’s waste "co-product" as post-consumer recycled content in our EcoWorx backings. The co-product is now used in kilns to create steam for fuel boilers at a partner company in Cartersville, Georgia. Following the waste to energy process, calcium carbonate is reclaimed from the co-product and returned to our Cartersville manufacturing facility for inclusion as post-consumer recycled content in our EcoWorx backing, creating a genuinely closed loop of recycling and remanufacturing. As a result, more than 95 percent of all material entering Evergreen is now recovered as caprolactam, energy, or post-consumer recycled content.
