Dive summary:
- Green Technology Group, an Ontario, Canada based company has found a way to take plastics not usually desirable for recycling and make it possible and cost-efficient to recycle them.
- Once the plastics have been mixed and melted, Green Technology uses it to make deck tiles, outdoor fencing and landscaping products.
- Without using any water, this process can even recycle items such as a peanut butter jar that hasn’t been properly rinsed out.
From the article:
But for all the convenience and possibilities of plastic, it is a curse on the environment. Certain types of plastic still get rejected by recyclers, and end up in landfills.
That’s a problem Tim Scott of Waterloo and Leo Blakely of Newmarket have decided to tackle with their company, Greenable Technology Group, which is based on Blakely’s new system for melting and mixing together different grades of plastic in order to create new products, such as deck tiles, outdoor fencing and landscaping products.
An example of the company’s new system, the GreenGator 100, is operating in a customer’s recycling facility in Concord. About the size of a big injection moulding machine, it takes in much of the plastic that cannot normally be resold into other markets and turns it into usable moulded products. ...
