ITEC plant opens.
Itec Environmental Group Inc. has announced that its Riverbank, Calif., plastic recycling Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastics and reprocessing the material into useful products, sometimes completely different from their original state. plant has begun operations.
The company anticipates that the plant will be fully operational and producing recycled PET and HDPE HDPE
abbr.
high-density polyethylene early this year.
Once Itec completes testing procedures in late January January: see month. , the company says it believes the Riverbank plant will be operational and processing post-consumer PET and HDPE plastics, producing food-grade flake flake
an epidermal scale.
flake Cocaine, see there at the rate of 2,100 pounds per hour. The company will then increase production throughout the next few months and expects to reach a capacity of 6,000 pounds per hour during the third quarter of 2006. Itec anticipates that the plastic produced by the plant will sell for about 55 cents per pound.
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