Anellotech’s president and CEO discusses the company’s technology for transforming plastic waste into virgin commodity chemicals for further use as raw materials.
Republic Services will use up to $5.9 million in upgrades and expansion at its Gregg County landfill over the next three years.
The use of RESIN8 blocks creates demand for formerly landfill-bound mixed plastics and diverts plastic waste from otherwise escaping waste collection and going back into the environment.
We Energies will build and operate a 2.25-megawatt solar array on 8 acres of the closed landfill.
The Reading, Pa., facility can recycle more than 36,000 tons of old corrugated cardboard per year.
The final part of a three-part series examines the beneficial uses of rubber-modified asphalt.
The city hopes to bring a facility that would recycle single-use and “dirty plastics” to the area.
The proposed expansion would cost an estimated $42 million and would extend the landfill’s life by 20 years.
