At PlastiCycle we pride ourselves on offering competitive market pricing along with exceptional service. We know the recycled market and we can provide manufacturers with the most competitive rates year round. by: PlasticsToday StaffResin PricingMaterials March 10, 2020 Spot resin trading turned cautious as the calendar flipped to March, reports the PlasticsExchange in its Market Update. It took a strong Friday to bring the week’s completed volume up to a satisfying figure, said the Chicago-based resin clearinghouse. While there was a good flow of buyer inquiries, processors were a bit sh ..read more

Posted on  November 21, 2019 by Jared Paben, Resource Recycling In 2017, the U.S. recycled 3 million tons of plastic, down 5.1% from 2015, according to the EPA. The U.S. plastics recycling rate fell to its lowest level in half a decade, recently released figures show. The plastics recycling rate decreased from 9.0% in 2015 to 8.4% in 2017, according to the U.S. EPA. The agency this month released national waste generation and recycling data for the years 2016 and 2017. The prior data release, which occurred a year and a half ago, covered 2015. The 8.4% recycling ..read more

by: PlasticsToday Staff November 06, 2019 With two of its own PET recycling plants in Austria and Poland (PET Recycling Team) and joint ventures in Mexico and Germany, Alpla (Hard, Austria) has long been established in the field of PET recycling. These operations currently have an annual capacity of 70,000 tonnes/77,162 tons. Alpla is now taking the next step by buying two HDPE recycling plants. Alpla signed the purchase agreements for the acquisition of Suminco S.A. in Montcada (near Barcelona, shown at left) and Replacal S.L. in Palencia (north of Madrid) in October. Both businesses be ..read more

February 2, 2022 by Marissa Heffernan, PLATICS RECYCLING UPDATE Resource Recycling Inc. PlastiCycle’s Nashville facility has two grinding lines and a pelletizing line, which the new Franklin, Ky. facility will also get, in addition to a wash line. | Courtesy of PlastiCycle Plastics reclaimer PlastiCycle will double its capacity and invest in a wash line as part of a $6 million expansion project. The 60,000-square-foot Franklin, Ky. building will be a near-clone of the current Nashville, Tenn. operation, said Anthony Corso Jr., vice president of sales for the firm. Critically, h ..read more

By DON SERGENT dsergent@bgdailynews.comJan 10, 2022 BOWLING GREEN DAILY NEWS New York-based PlastiCycle, a company providing plastic recycling services to manufacturers, is expanding into Simpson County. The company, which already has a presence in Nashville, has purchased a 54,000-square-foot manufacturing building on Washington Way in Franklin, where PlastiCycle President Tony Corso said “25 to 30” workers will soon begin recycling plastic from industrial clients. “We work with manufacturers and recycle the scrap from their production process,” Corso said. “We take the scrap and re-process i ..read more

January 06, 2022 01:40 PM PLASTICS NEWS JIM JOHNSON Staff Writer, Plastics News Staff PlastiCycle has two grinding lines as well as a pelletizing line in Nashville, and looks to install the same equipment in the 60,000-square-foot Kentucky building. PlastiCycle Corp. is simultaneously staying close to home and moving into another state as the plastic recycler expands through a $6 million project. The company, with operations in Nashville, Tenn., has acquired another building in nearby Franklin, Ky., that will allow for the installation of additional processing equipment early this year ..read more

THE CONVERSATION. July 14, 2020 8.33am EDT. Jessica Heiges / Kate O’Neil COVID-19 is changing how the U.S. disposes of waste. It is also threatening hard-fought victories that restricted or eliminated single-use disposable items, especially plastic, in cities and towns across the nation. Our research group is analyzing how the pandemic has altered waste management strategies. Plastic-Free July, an annual campaign launched in 2011, is a good time to assess what has happened to single-use disposable plastics under COVID-19, and whether efforts to curb their use can get back o ..read more

PlastiCycle continues to service the plastic recycling needs of our suppliers and customers during this difficult time. WasteAdvantage March 22, 2020 With states and communities across the country taking important steps to curb the spread of the Coronavirus, ISRI, in a letter addressed to Vice President Mike Pence, requested that all recycling operations across the U.S. be designated “essential” to public health and welfare, as well as to our nation’s economic infrastructure. The recycling industry supplies a significant portion of the raw materials needed by manufacturers to produce the goods ..read more

By Leslie Kaufman March 15, 2020, 7:00 AM EDT Updated on March 16, 2020, 2:14 PM EDT With health concerns at the top of consumers’ minds, companies are abandoning eco-conscious policies and re-embracing single-use items. Plastic-wrapped fruit is displayed at a grocery store in Toronto, Ontario. Photographer: Cole Burston/Bloomberg It took one week after the first U.S. case of Covid-19 with no overseas connection for Starbucks Corp. to temporarily ban customers from bringing in reusable coffee mugs. Judith Enck, a former regional administrator for the Environmental Protectio ..read more

If you are a plastic manufacturer then there is a good chance the limits on plastic scrap exports are affecting your business. Contact PlastiCycle to recycle your scrap plastic domestically! We are the leader in plastic recycling.  The U.S. exported 1.46 billion pounds of scrap plastics in 2019, down 38% from the year before. | qingqing/Shutterstock Scrap plastic exports from the U.S. continued a steady decrease that has unfolded over the past few years, dropping in 2019 to their lowest total volume since 2002. The U.S. exported 1.46 billion pounds of recovered plastics in 2019, down 38 ..read more