Ballentine (WLTX) - A Richland County woman has started her own business to, of course, make money, but also help the environment. Nancy Oburns's house may just look like an ordinary one, but behind its walls is a money making, environment saving, charity supporting business. About six months ago, Ogburn was inspired.
So, this entrepreneur came up with a plan. For a fee, she would drop off recycling containers to businesses and later pick them up and bring what some would call junk to recycling centers.
Ogburn says that she feels good about what her company does.
"If we hadn't started this business," Ogburn says, "So much would have ended up in the landfills."
Officials say if you were throw an aluminum can, it would sit in a landfill for 400 years. Others say you could recycle aluminum cans and similar materials, and in 60 days, it returns to store shelves as something else.
Six months after founding her business, Tomato Palms features a list of clients from Time Warner Cable to small local churches, and she hopes others will catch up too.
"Instead of paying to send trash to a landfill," says Ogburn, "why not pay to send it to a recycling plant? I don't think it's a hard decision."
Tomato Palms donates a portion of the money that they make to Midlands charities.
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