dickson city &mdash 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&rsquos store near the viewmont mall in lackawanna county it&rsquos easy to see just how much packaging material comes from the furniture industry.&ldquothere&rsquos a great deal of styrofoam. there&rsquos a great deal of packaging. there&rsquos a great deal of cardboard to use to make sure that furniture gets to you in good shape,&rdquo said aaron yeager, raymour and flanigan.but raymour and flanigan has its own recycling plants to deal with every piece of it.&ldquoall 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,&rdquo 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.&ldquoit is amazing and it&rsquos something that we&rsquore really proud of.&rdquofurniture from stores like this is meant to be in your house a long time, but the stuff used to ship it doesn&rsquot have to be in landfills a long time. 
