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Title: Sustainable HDPE Recycling


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Sustainable HDPE Recycling
  • October 30, 2007

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Contents
  • Introduction to Entropex
  • N.A. HDPE Recycling
  • Volumes
  • End Use Markets
  • Threats
  • Rising polypropylene contamination
  • Offshore HDPE bale shipments
  • Sustainability

3
Entropex Overview
  • Background
  • Size
  • Our Cause

4
Entropex Background
  • Entropex is a privately held company
  • Operating since 1978
  • 180,000 sq. ft. facility located in Sarnia,
    Ontario

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Size
  • Largest independent HDPE re-processor in the
    Great Lakes Basin
  • Entropex processes
  • One of every ten pigmented HDPE bottles recycled
    in the United States which
  • Exceeds all HDPE container resin sold in Ontario
    and twice the HDPE resin recovered.
  • Sources 2004 (US) National Post-Consumer
    Recycling Report
  • 2006 Stewardship Ontario Annual Report

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Our Cause
  • To reduce CO2 Emissions through Plastics Recovery

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Contents
  • Introduction to Entropex
  • N.A. HDPE Recycling
  • Volumes
  • End Use Markets
  • Threats
  • Rising polypropylene contamination
  • Offshore HDPE bale shipments
  • Sustainability

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Contents
  • Introduction to Entropex
  • N.A. HDPE recycling
  • Volumes
  • End use markets
  • Threats
  • Rising polypropylene contamination
  • Offshore HDPE bale shipments
  • Sustainability

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Threats
  • Rising polypropylene contamination
  • 30 HDPE supply reduction through detergent
    concentration
  • California polypropylene light weighting
    legislation.

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End Market Sensitivity
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Threats
  • Estimated 2006 offshore bale shipments at 91.5
    million pounds
  • Higher domestic bale prices
  • Chinese whole plastic import restrictions

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Sustainability
  • Focus on high end markets
  • AASHTO certification
  • Domestic market support
  • Municipal green purchase strategy
  • Resin stewardship
  • CO2 reduction scorecard

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IMAGES COURTESY OF THE ASSOCIATION OF POST
CONSUMER PLASTIC RECYCLERS
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