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Furniture Chain Recycles 15 Million Pounds of Packaging

DICKSON CITY — The ads have been running for weeks. A furniture store chain has been promoting its recycling efforts. And going behind the scenes at Raymo...
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DICKSON CITY -- The ads have been running for weeks. A furniture store chain has been promoting its recycling efforts.

And going behind the scenes at Raymour and Flanigan's store near the Viewmont Mall in Lackawanna County it's easy to see just how much packaging material comes from the furniture industry.

"There's a great deal of Styrofoam. There's a great deal of packaging. There's a great deal of cardboard to use to make sure that furniture gets to you in good shape," said Aaron Yeager, Raymour and Flanigan.

But Raymour and Flanigan has its own recycling plants to deal with every piece of it.

"All of our stuff is kept and brought back on our private fleets to three of our distribution plants that all have recycling plants from Styrofoam, to cardboard and plastics, all are recycled to be used again," Yeager said.

Just this one Raymour and Flanigan store alone goes through dozens and dozens of boxes a day. And there are 110 stores in the chain. So you can imagine how much material that is.

The company says the materials from all those stores all year long adds up to 15 million pounds kept out of landfills each year.

Much of it goes right back to furniture manufacturers.

"It is amazing and it's something that we're really proud of."

Furniture from stores like this is meant to be in your house a long time, but the stuff used to ship it doesn't have to be in landfills a long time.

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