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Thursday, 08/13/2009 10:39:09 AM

Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:39:09 AM

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Another thing that you don't remember that I posted a while ago is that a big portion of the plastic that is recycled they don't really want to recycle. Plastic in factories that has been used once and is ground up looses some of its qualities. It gets mixed in with raw plastic and still at a 10 percent level will make parts that have low tolerances come out bad. They only recycle plastic (for the most part) because they are pressured to. Some parts do not have tight tolerances. I have produced these, and they end up all over the place measurement wise. They shrink different when they cool down...they come out with different widths and usually look like total crap because of color difference and marks that come out on the part. At the factory I worked at the stockpile of ground up plastic kept growing far outpacing demand. As you mentioned there are plastics that cannot be used again and those parts are tossed in the dumpster.