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TerraCycle, Kimberly-Clark Expand Medical Garment Recycling Program

Published April 19, 2012
By
Sean Griffey
The Lane Team

Kimberly-Clark Professional and TerraCycle Inc. are expanding their cleanroom and laboratory garment recycling program to include a pilot program for gloves.

Grand Island, N.Y.-based Life Technologies Corp., is piloting a nitrile glove recycling program with Roswell, Ga.-based Kimberly-Clark Professional and Trenton, N.J.-based TerraCycle. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., based in Waltham, Mass., is supplying the gloves as well as all recycling program materials, the companies said in a news release.

Employees at Life Technologies' Pleasanton, Calif., facility started recycling gloves in December 2011 with the goal of becoming the first of the company's sites to achieve zero waste to landfill...

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