RE: [GreenYes] recycling plastic number 5's and 6's.

[Jay Donnaway <jdonnawa@dca.state.ga.us>]

A major all-bottle sorting/washing/pelletizing operation told me that they
blend in the Polypro., LDPE , and injection molded HDPE with mixed color
HDPE bottle flake for lower-end markets such as nursery pots and drainage
pipe.  As always, check with your particular end market, but there may be
more recycling happening with all-bottle bales than initially meets the eye.
Jay Donnaway
State Recycling Coordinator
Georgia Department of Community Affairs
60 Executive Park South, NE
Atlanta, GA 30329-2231
TEL: 404-679-3161
FAX:  404-679-0646
Email: jdonnawa@dca.state.ga.us


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Stephan Pollard [SMTP:sp@cast.uark.edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 12, 2001 11:51 AM
> To:	The Eden Sterling Company
> Cc:	greenyes@grrn.org
> Subject:	Re: [GreenYes] recycling plastic number 5's and 6's.
> 
> Same goes for us folks in Fayetteville, Arkansas.  We'd be appreciative if
> responses to Ben's email could be shared with the group.
> 
> Also, is there anything we can do with 4's?
> 
> Stephan
> 
> The Eden Sterling Company wrote:
> 
> > Hello. My name is Ben Randolph. I am new to this list. We strive in our
> > household to recycle as much as possible. Here in Cincinnati, Ohio we
> can
> > find no place that takes plastics marked with a 5 or 6. We want to know
> if
> > there is someplace we could mail these plastics to that would recycle
> them.
> > We don't have that many, but over 3-4 months they would add up to be
> quite a
> > lot. Or if someone knows of a place in Cincinnati that we might have
> > overlooked.
> >
> > Peace,
> > Ben Randolph
> >
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