The Problem With Plastic and Why Reduce and Reuse are Essential to Recycling
A big problem with plastic is the utter lack of uniformity in the plastics industry. There are so many different types of plastic on store shelves, almost all of which we assume can be recycled, but a lot of which cannot. You may even see those famous little arrows that symbolize recycling on a package that in actuality cannot be recycled. That’s an issue of plastics companies doing a little greenwashing, knowing that the more people are comfortable with tossing their plastics in a recycle bin, the more new plastics they’ll go out and buy.
We assume that the plastic containers we throw into the recycling are being made into new plastic containers, but that is not necessarily true. In a study by the Ecology Center in Berkeley, California, they found that none of the plastic recycled in Berkeley was actually reprocessed into new containers. Most of it goes into secondary products like textiles, parking lot bumpers and plastic lumber — all materials that cannot (or are more difficult to) be recycled the next time around. So, we’ve created a system that collects recyclables but doesn’t actually recycle them. Not cool.
AS PTO, LLC Enters Into JV/License Agreement With ES Resources, LLC for First P2O Processing Site in Florida
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, Feb. 12, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JBI, Inc. (the "Company") (OTCBB: JBII) is pleased to announce that on February 12, 2010, AS PTO, LLC, which entered into an Area Development Agreement (ADA) with JBI, Inc. for 45 P2O sites, has entered into a Joint Venture and Licensing Agreement with ES Resources, LLC for a P2O processing site to be located in Clearwater, Florida.
ES Resources has made a reservation deposit in the amount of $100,000.00 to confirm its interest in purchasing a License for the marketing and exploitation of the Plastic2Oil technology from AS PTO, LLC on behalf of JBI. The announcement of this first P2O processing site aligns with AS PTO's strategy of installing P2O sites throughout Florida with an initial concentration on large metropolitan areas.
About JBI, Inc.
JBI, Inc. is transitioning to become a global technology leader whose purpose is to mine data from JBI's large information archive, find under-productive entities to inject our superior proprietary technologies into, and benefit from increased productivity and profitability, beginning with Plastic2Oil. JBI has also acquired the following operations:
JAVACO, Inc. ("Javaco") is part of the Supplier Diversity Network, WBENC. JAVACO, Inc. currently distributes over 100 lines of equipment from fiber optic transmitters to RF connectors. To further enhance business in the United States, new distribution lines are frequently being added including a line of home theater and audio video products. JAVACO will operate and manage the Company's Plastic2Oil sites in Mexico.
Pak-It, LLC ("Pak-It"): Using the patented Pak-It(TM) delivery system (liquid cleaner in a water soluble sachet) Pak-It can deliver glass cleaner, disinfectant, multi-purpose, and many more cleaning products (42 products currently) shipped in tiny packages of condensed cleaner (inside a 'dry' 1 quart container). This delivery method is "green" since it's fully biodegradable and saves thousands of dollars in shipping. The user simply adds water to the container without measuring or cutting the Pak-It. Large retailers and many national Building Service Contractors already using the product have documented significant cost savings from shipping, training, inventory control and space.
Accordingly, our revenue sources presently include (i) income from reading archived tapes (including microfiche) from clients such as NASA, (ii) income from the recently acquired JAVACO, Inc., (iii) income from the sale of Pak-It products, and bulk chemical facility which we realize beginning October 1, 2009, and (iv) from the anticipated commencement of operations in the first quarter of 2010 with Plastic2Oil, a process and service that converts plastic to fuel oil. For more information, please see http://www.jbiglobal.com, http://www.javacoinc.com and http://www.pakit.com/.
A better question: Is there any company out there that HASN'T been sued???.......Or any PERSON for that matter.....it's totally irrelevant.....the bigger you get the bigger a target you are.....whooptie 'Expletive Deleted'.......... z
"Most people believe that plastics can be infinitely recycled – creating new products of a value to equal the old bottles or other plastics which they dutifully put into recycling containers to be collected. The cold hard fact is that there is no such thing as recycling plastic, because it is not a closed loop. None of the soda and milk bottles which are collected from your curbside are used to make new soda or milk bottles, because each time the plastic is heated it degenerates, so the subsequent iteration of the polymer is degraded and can’t meet food quality standards for soda and milk bottles. The plastic must be used to make lower quality products. The cycle goes something like this:
Virgin PET can be made into soda or milk bottles,which are collected and recycled into resins which are appropriate to make into toys, carpet, filler for pillows, CD cases, plastic lumber products, fibers or a million other products. But not new soda or milk bottles.
These second generation plastics can then be recycled a second time into park benches, carpet, speed bumps or other products with very low value.
The cycle is completed when the plastic is no longer stable enough to be used for any product, so it is sent to the landfill"
(2) "I have talked to industrial places that PAY to get rid of their waste plastic. Actual places that PAY, not internet searches. I have talked to places that buy waste plastic and its a small percentage of whats out there. They pay higher prices because there is so few of it out there that they can use. There are industrial plastics they don't buy because they can't use them - lots of them." http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=54357508
(3) $10 to $100 per ton to dump waste plastic. Cities could save as much as $200 per ton giving it for free to JBII:
(6) $50 a ton example cost to dump plastic by a recycler who 40,000 to 80,000 lbs per month to the landfill. (JBII will take it off their hands for free). This is a single location:
Discarded? How much do they PAY to discard? $25, $50, $100 a ton tip fee?
(8) From a New York City website...
These move past a series of laser beams that identify any item made of #1 PET or #2 HDPE and blow it off the main conveyor onto a second conveyor. At this stage, workers manually pull out #1 and #2 bottles and jugs. What is left over at the end of the conveyor belt journey (#3-7 bottles, #1-7 tubs and trays, as well as non-numbered plastic containers) is disposed of as residue.
Disposed of = paid to get rid of = available for free to anybody who wants it.
(9) Posted by: Steve555 Date: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 9:05:53 AM In reply to: jjsmith who wrote msg# 69037 Post # of 69059
Listen guys, Get off the subject of feed stock for once and for all!
I have contracts for waste plastic,from hard plastic to dirty film, to be deliverd to my yard, I GET PAID between $80 and delivered free. The better the plastic the worse the price I get paid, if I agree to take the better material for free I can call the period of the contract which is between 3 to 5 years.
I would be more concerned with JBI's roll out timescale.
(10) "Do we must have to pay for plastic? No we don't. I have a contract for mixed plastics, free, for ten years and that is no big deal because I don't have any difficulty acquiring plastic. We are happy to receive dirty plastic (ie: mixed, composites, etc..)"
"80% of all plastic goes to landfill and that is the plastic we are acquiring -- NO ONE buys it now and it is expensive to discard. I don't want the other 0-20% of high quality, highly sorted, super clean plastic that some (few) pay for. The Chinese control that market and it is very cyclical."
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