ASHLEY â Brightmark is known for its impact on the environment through its mission of taking plastic waste and converting it to fuels and wax at its plant thatâs been running for about a year.
On Thursday, as part of a postponed Earth Day event, Brightmark employees fanned out across Ashley, picking up trash â particularly plastic â and planting trees.
âWeâre definitely picking up the plastic,â said Tina Walters, human resources director at the Ashley plant.
Even the plastic buckets that the 25 large trees arrived in from Franz Nursery, Hamilton, would get put through the Brightmark plant that is the first of its kind to take plastic and recycle it into fuels, wax and even new plastic feed stock.