Re: [GreenYes] search for a polystyrene recycler

["Roger Guttentag" <rgutten@concentric.net>]

Maybe this will help - however it is stated on the PSPC web page that food
service polystyrene is no longer accepted by most reclaimers.
http://www.polystyrene.org/environment/env_map.html

Roger M. Guttentag
610-584-8836
rgutten@concentric.net

----- Original Message -----
From: debra lombard <dlombard@earthlink.net>
To: greenyes listserv <greenyes@grrn.org>; <GinnyL@co.multnomah.or.us>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 12:43 PM
Subject: [GreenYes] search for a polystyrene recycler


> Fowarded by Debra Lombard. Please respond to GinnyL@co.multnomah.or.us
>
> I am helping to search for a polystyrene recycler.  Apparently, one of
> the last of these, the Polystyrene Recycling Company of America in
> Corona,
> CA, is no longer recycling this product.
>
> More than one institutional feeder has gone to polystyrene tableware
> and cannot return to washing permanent ware without great expense.
> There
> used to be many recyclers but the governmental incentives have
> disappeared.
> Please let me know if you know of any in the Pacific Northwest.
> Thank you.
>
> Ginny Lane
> acting Energy Planner
> Multnomah County Facilities
> ginnyl@co.multnomah.or.us
>
>
>
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