{"id":19965,"date":"2019-07-31T10:51:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T07:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/?p=19965"},"modified":"2024-08-19T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T11:55:18","slug":"the-potential-of-polypropylene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/en\/the-potential-of-polypropylene\/","title":{"rendered":"The potential of polypropylene"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Envision Plastics<\/a>,\u00a0St. Joseph Plastics<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0PureCycle Technologies LLC<\/a>\u00a0are U.S. companies that are trying to find innovative ways to recycle polypropylene (PP). As technology advances, global brands increase their demand for recycled material and consumers\u2019 awareness of the issues created by ocean plastic heightens, the market for recycled PP continues to grow and evolve. Reprocessors predict the market potential for recycled PP is \u201chuge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Over the years, these three processors and others have been on a journey to recycle PP, testing and commercializing new technology, developing a postconsumer resin (PCR) for use in food-grade packaging and advancing processes to clean and pelletize curbside PP bales.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Envision Plastics, headquartered in Reidsville, North Carolina, is a reprocessor of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and PP. The company also has a West Coast plant in Chino, California.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Tamsin Ettefagh, vice president of sales at Envision Plastics, has spent the past few years of her career advancing postconsumer PP recycling at Envision, with a focus on using the company\u2019s HDPE recycling technology to create PCR that meets guidelines from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for food-grade packaging.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Longtime postindustrial PP recycler St. Joseph Plastics, which has one grinding facility and one compounding facility in St. Joseph, Missouri, as well as a washing facility in Sedalia, Missouri, has expanded its operations to reprocess postconsumer PP, with a mission to listen to customer needs and give curbside-collected PP a new life. The company has dedicated an entire facility to processing postconsumer PP collected from curbside recycling programs. This PCR is used to make consumer products today.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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After testing technology developed and licensed by Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble (P&G), Chicago- based PureCycle Technologies, which offers \u201cvirgin-like\u201d PP resin, will mark a milestone in early 2021 with the opening of its first commercial plant in southeast Ohio. The plant, which will be able to produce 105 million pounds of recycled PP per year, is a step toward PureCycle\u2019s mission to supply the global market with recycled PP, which it says is in high demand by global brands that have made sustainable packaging commitments.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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<\/span>Testing the market<\/span><\/span><\/h3>
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