Pa. DEP awards infrastructure development grants.

Waste Not Technologies LLC of Saylorsburg, Pa., and at St. Jude Polymer Corp. of Frackville, Pa. have received $485,000 in recycling markets infrastructure development grants from Pennsylvania to finance equipment purchases that will increase their use of Pennsylvania-generated recycled feedstock.

"Both of these companies have been innovators and leaders in the recycled plastics industry, and they will be able to increase demand for recycled materials as a result of these grants," Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty says.

Waste Not Technologies currently produces post and rail fencing made entirely of recycled plastic from industrial and residential recycling programs, including low-density polyethylene and polypropylene, for which few other regional markets exist. The company will receive $250,000 to purchase a structural foam injection mold machine to improve the manufacturing process and increase the types of materials used at the plant. Plant capacity is expected to increase from 357 pounds per day to 9.5 tons per day within five years.

St. Jude Polymer manufactures truckload quantities of raw materials to user and mill specifications from recycled PET and HDPE, including bottles and mixed-grade plastics collected from industrial and residential recycling programs. St. Jude will receive $235,000 to purchase separating and processing equipment to increase its monthly capacity from 450,000 pounds of bottles per month to 3 million pounds per month.