Largest polystyrene recycling plant in U.S. will be opened by Whittier-based company.Largest polystyrene recycling plant in U.S. will be opened by Whittier-based company A Southland recycling company will open the largest polystyrene reprocessing Reprocessing may refer to:
The $3 million Riverside County facility will be run by Whittier-based Talco Recycling Inc. and owned by the National Polystyrene Recycling Co., a consortium of large polystyrene producers like Atlantic Richfield Co. and Dow Chemical. Beginning in October, the 60,000-square-foot plant, located in the city of Corona, will recycle 13 million lbs. of used polystyrene drinking cups, plates and food containers annually, along with so-called "foam peanuts" used to package electronics and other merchandise. Polystyrene is the generic name generic name n. 1. The official nonproprietary name of a drug, under which it is licensed and identified by the manufacturer. 2. for plastic foams like Dow Chemical Co.'s Styrofoam. Talco will take the used polystyrene and wash it to remove residual food particles, then grind it, melt it and fashion it into small pellets. Talco will then sell the pellets to industrial producers who buy them to make plastic trays for fast-food chains, office products like waste baskets and pencil holders as well as toys. The price for the recycled polystyrene is between 35 cents and 40 cents a pound, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Talco Recycling President John Shedd. Talco, an affiliate of $10-million (1989 revenues) Talco Plastics Inc., expects about $5 million in sales the first year. "Polystyrene has been banned in several cities and it could spread unless we do something about it," Shedd said. "Either we don't use it or we make it recyclable." Last July, West Hollywood became the first city in Los Angeles County to ban the use of polystyrene by food packagers and retail outlets like fast-food chains. The city of Los Angeles
"I think what they (Talco and NPRC NPRC National Personnel Records Center NPRC National Primate Research Center NPRC Needham Pool and Racquet Club (Massachusetts) NpRC Non-Profit Recyclers Council NPRC Northumberland Pistol and Revolver Club (Canada) ) did needed to be done," said Mary Nichols, a staff attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a New York City-based, non-profit non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing. Founded in 1970, NRDC today has 1. in Los Angeles. While Styrofoam and polystyrene represents only about 1.2 percent of all the waste in landfills, it is not biodegradeble, meaning it "lives forever," according to Nichols. It also is made from petroleum, raising concerns about sea transshipments and dependence on foreign oil. NPRC officials say their goal is to have one-quarter of all U.S.-produced polystyrene food containers and other products recycled by 1995. They would not disclose what recycling companies were beat out by Talco or the length of their contract with NPRC. More than 206 million lbs. of polystyrene are used in the Southland alone, according to Californians Against Waste Californians Against Waste is an American environmental advocacy organization that takes action on local, state and national levels to conserve natural resources and prevent pollution through the expansion of a recycling economy. The organization is headquartered in Sacramento, CA. , an environmental lobbying organization in Sacramento. NPRC, which owns the nation's first large-scale reprocessor of used polystyrene food-service items, plans on opening three other recycling plants in San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia by the end of the year. Under an existing program, Talco Plastics has reclaimed over 1.5 million school lunch trays from the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. . |
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