Hooray!!! We recently shipped out a big shipment of mixed recyclable plastics that had been in our warehouse for quite awhile. Our former recycler for that waste stream had gone out of business and it took a while to find someone new to take this stuff....it's a mix of plastic types, #1, #2, #6 - you name it! So not a conventional commodity in the recyclables market.
Anyway, a new business named New Frontier Industries is just getting going near our plant in New Hampshire, and it makes fabulous recycled plastic products. We are so happy that they are now putting our mixed plastics to good use. New Frontier Industries makes a great sound barrier product made from 95% post-consumer plastics and will also soon be making a decking product as well. Maybe you can use some in your community or at your house?! Check them out.
--Lisa, Natural Resources
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