Mazza Recycling opens ‘Second Nature’ bagging plant

Mazza Recycling, a Tinton Falls, New Jersey-based recycling and waste management company, has announced its recent construction of a 17,500-square-foot bagging facility—called Second Nature—that has the capacity to produce 5.2 million mulch and soil bags annually.

Currently, Second Nature is producing several bagged products, through a partnership with ScottsMiracle-Gro consumer products and their own line of mulch and topsoil products.  

Mazza Recycling says it strives to be the leading innovator of recycling programs and facilities dedicated to creating solutions that safely preserve the environment for its community and future generations.

The addition of the bagger aligns with the company’s mission to create locally sourced products in an already established market. Second Nature is fully automated, featuring a Japan-based Yaskawa robot that stacks individual bags onto pallets. It also features Plymouth, Minnesota-based Hamer Fischbein equipment, a Whitney, Texas-based Kasebill hopper and incline, and a Canada-based Wulftec wrapper.

The film wraps the stacked mulch onto the pallet where it is eventually loaded by forklift operators onto trucks for delivery to box stores such as Lowes and Home Depot. Mazza’s personal mulch bags are available for purchase at local flower farms and nurseries.

Mazza Recycling President and CEO Jimmy Mazza says, “Like most of our newly constructed facilities, there was a lot involved in bagging mulch that we weren’t familiar with in the beginning. However, with the popularity of the Mazza Mulch branch of our company, it made sense to take the 500,000 [plus] cubic yards of mulch we produce from natural wood debris and safely ship it in bags that can reach a larger amount of people.”