Comments on: Recycled Plastics Market Begins to Stabilize

By: Blair Pollock

Blair Pollock — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:18:09 +0000

Thanks for taking time to write these columns. In North Carolina a partnership of two industries carpet and PET fiber is completing a $50MM plant in Fayetteville NC that will employ 100 and convert 5 billion old PET bottles per year, 80% to fiber and 20% commodity plastic. More domestic efforts like this will be the way to GROW our plastic demand and in conjunction w/ that, NC is banning plastic bottles from the landfill as of October 1, 2009. So here’s where demand and supply could meet ‘helped’ by this new law, which was passed in 2005 to take effect this year!

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Recycled Plastics Market Begins to Stabilize — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:27:35 +0000

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By: Trey Granger

Trey Granger — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:31:01 +0000

I would compare the current recyclables market to that Hollywood writer’s strike a few years ago. The industry was smart and stockpiled a bunch of scripts and projects, so when the strike ended there was no halt in production while the writers caught up. If we stop recycling because there’s less demand for it right now, we won’t have the supply later to make new products.