Every product that enters our store comes in a box. Our hard-working grocery crew breaks down all of the boxes, and then carts them to our receiving area where we have a large, steel baler that’s built like a tank. Two or three times a day the baler compresses 750 lb bales that are safely stored until they are picked up.
Twice weekly, Unified Grocers trucks them to their Portland warehouse, where they are stored in “area 24” (kinda spooky sounding, right?).
When enough bales are accumulated, they are placed on a trailer pallet two high, side by side, and transported by Cascade Express to Farwest Fibers in another part of Portland.
Farwest Fibers, one of the larger mixed recycling companies in the Northwest, then re-bales the cardboard and ships it to companies, such as Weyerhaeuser, where cardboard is reconstituted into more boxes, divider sheets, paper, etc.
Such is the life of cardboard; to be constantly reshaped and reused over and over again utill it becomes the perfect container!
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