Dive Brief:

• Conyers, GA-based Pratt Recycling has opened new recycling plants in Wichita, KS, and Gary, IN. The plants will work with the company’s new Valparaisio, IN paper mill.
• The new plant in Valparaisio will open in September 2015, and will be the largest box plant in the world, according to the company.
• "Now, with the upcoming addition of our fourth, 100-percent-recycled paper mill, adding recycling assets and infrastructure is the next logical expansion strategy for us," said Myles Cohen, president of Pratt Recycling.

Dive Insight:

Pratt will increase the number of employees at both recycling centers within the next year. Now, 30 employees work at the two plants.

"These two facilities will enhance revenues for those businesses that want to recycle," Cohen said.