Sustainable Change With America’s Plastic Makers
America’s Plastic Makers are pushing for smarter plastic recycling solutions today. This group is comprised of the American Chemistry Council’s Plastic Division and its member companies. These are the companies that use chemistry and innovation to make the materials used by all of us in modern day life. And now, they are rolling out a new initiative called “Making Sustainable Change”.
Through this bold effort, they are calling for a transition to a more circular economy in which plastic is recycled and reused, instead of the current linear relationship in which large percentages of one time use plastics are dumped into landfills or littered onto roadsides or into oceans.
For this important goal to happen, they are developing ways for plastics to be lighter, stronger, and more easily recyclable. This will help bring down greenhouse gas emissions from discarded products as well as during the initial production of them.
There are several new and exciting technologies that allow plastics to be broken back down into their original molecular structures and be remade into new plastic, over and over again. This includes a wider variety of even plastics that are considered hard to recycle.
Making A Sustainable Change
According to their website plasticmakers.org, there are multiple steps that people and businesses can take “to accelerate our drive toward circularity, such as:
- Choosing materials with a lighter environmental footprint (often such as lightweight, efficient plastics).
- Rethinking how products are made, designed, and used.
- Designing products that can be reused and/or recycled.
- And using conventional and advanced recycling to remake these materials into new materials to be used again and again… reducing and displacing the need to extract limited natural resources.
- Capturing materials at the end of their useful life to keep them in play and out of our environment.
This last step is one that anyone or any business can do to help the environment. By collecting and baling up reusable plastic, you are keeping it out of the waste stream while saving yourself the cost of having it hauled away by a waste company.
You may think to yourself, “we can collect plastic and keep it out of the trash, but what do we do with it after that?”
That is where Harmony comes in! We believe in this charge to create sustainable change, and create action to achieve it by manufacturing long lasting equipment to help capture, store, and transport these valuable recyclable commodities for reuse. That’s why we manufactured the widest range of vertical and horizontal recycling balers on the market for decades!
From small recycling balers used to consolidate PET bottles in residential, office, and retail buildings to conveyor fed recycling center balers, our long lasting plastic recycling solutions provide affordable and efficient ways for people and businesses to do their part recycling plastics.
Users deposit recyclable plastics into the machine, cycle the machine when the chamber is full to compress the material, tie of the bale when the it is full, and eject it to be stored or transported once complete. This keeps your workplaces clean, free from hazards, and creates a new revenue stream where there once was an expense!
Not sure what types of plastics you can recycle? Check out this helpful post on Recycling Plastics By The Numbers.
Examples Of Businesses Utilizing Harmony’s Plastic Recycling Solutions
Harmony is proud to partner with several businesses throughout the world who are committed to reducing plastic waste through recycling. Here are just a few success stories:
- Carroll County Solid Waste uses five conveyor fed Harmony T60XDRC balers to help them recycle all types of plastic. The efficiency of these automatic recycling center balers allows them to manage large quantities of plastics and other commodities with a fast throughput.
- Recycling Partners Of Jamaica do an amazing job of working with local entities to pull plastics out of gullies, fields, and oceans and recycle it using several different sizes of Harmony balers, from our 30″ vertical balers to our HM60 horizontal baler at hubs throughout the island.
- Invema is a Honduras based recycler that collects plastics from both rural and urban areas and uses the latest technologies to turn it into clean flakes to be reused into food containers.
- Several California recyclers have chosen Harmony equipment for their ability to make extremely dense mill-sized bales. This is especially important given new state initiatives for recycling PET bottles through the Bottle Bill.
It Takes All Of Us!
We are inspired and energized by the work being done by the American Plastic Makers and our recycling partners across the globe. But, we realize these recycling initiatives need to expand and accelerate in order to have a lasting impact on our environment. To do this, it takes all of us.
If you would like to learn more about plastic recycling solutions that will help to create a more circular plastics economy, give us a call at (507) 886-6666 or fill out this simple form. We would love to talk with you today!
