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WHY RECYCLEPLASTIC

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• Most consumers think that the slow degradation
  of plastics is the primary reason that plastics
  should be recycled.

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• The more serious problem with plastic waste
  concerns the additives contained in plastics.
• These additives include colorants, stabilizers
  and plasticizers that may include toxic
  components such as lead and cadmium.

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• Studies indicate that plastics contribute 28
  percent of all cadmium in municipal solid waste
  and about 2 percent of all lead.
• Researchers dont know whether these and other
  plastic additives contribute significantly to
  products leached from municipal landfills.

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One additional concern relates to use of
petroleum products. All plastics began their
lives as petroleum. By increasing plastics
recycling, scientists and engineers are able to
reduce dependence on petroleum.
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• Preparing the containers for recycling does not
  require much time or effort, and if it is done at
  the time the container is emptied into the mix
  tank, it actually saves money by ensuring your
  entire product you purchased is where is supposed
  to be, on your CROP!

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Plastic Markets

• We all know that plastic is a petrochemical but
  as technology stands today we have not found a
  way to turn it back into its original state for
  remanufacturing. We can however turn it into
  another product for a second life.

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Recycling Limitations

• Many recycling programs cannot handle all grades
  of potentially recyclable plastics.
  Technologically all plastic resins are
  recyclable, but recycling is limited by

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High processing costs Proximity to
reprocessing facilitiesDemand for Material
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High Processing Costs

• Consider this example polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
  bottles are hard to tell apart from PET bottles,
  but one stray PVC bottle in a melt of 10,000 PET
  bottles can ruin the entire batch.

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• It's understandable why purchasers of recycled
  plastics want to make sure that the plastic is
  sorted properly. Equipment to sort plastics is
  being developed, but currently most recyclers are
  still sorting plastics by hand. That's expensive
  and time consuming. 

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Proximity To Reprocessing Facilities

• Plastics also are bulky and cumbersome to
  collect. In short, they take up a lot of space in
  recycling trucks.

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Demand for Material

• Agricultural Plastic typically is
• High Density Polyethylene HDPE 2
• Examples Decking Fencing
• Railroad ties Shingles
• Pipes

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How Do We Start

• Interest or willingness of local collections
• Quantity or amount of collection
• Quality or contamination
• Remember recycling is a system and needs to be
  managed. Markets are the key to the
  sustainability to a program, and the quantity and
  quality make the market.

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Next StepsI need your help!
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THE MOST IMPORTANT REQUIREMENT OF CONTAINERS IS
THAT THEY BE CLEAN!

• Triple Rinsed Containers
• No Caps or Metal

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Where are we to date

• 2006 .. 21,900 lbs
• 2007.23,440 lbs
• 2008.000, lbs

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Thank You

• Dusti Johnson
• Department of Environmental Quality
• Business Community Assistance
• 1-800-433-8773

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