Manufacturing Industry
Chicago getting all-bottles recycling site.(Waste Management Inc. is opening a second all-bottles plastic recycling facility)
Plastics News, June, 2003 by Toloken, Steve
Byline: Steve Toloken Waste Management Inc. has decided to open a second all-bottles plastic recycling facility, a potentially significant investment on the part of the waste-hauling giant that could boost sagging recycling rates. Houston-based WM's Recycle America Alliance subsidiary plans to open a plant in Chicago in early 2004 that will handle 100 million pounds of plastic a year, duplicating a plant in North Carolina that started operating early last year.
The investment has implications for curbside recycling programs. The American Plastics Council and other industry groups advocate that cities switch to an all-bottles collection program as a way to squeeze more PET and high density polyethylene from existing recycling programs. But some...
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