In January, Steve Russell wrote about the Hilex Poly plant expansion in Indiana. It got me thinking – the recycling process remains a mystery for many people, but it’s actually quite simple.
Check out the five-step plastic bag recycling process from the Hilex Poly web site.
Notice step one: it all starts by bringing your plastic bags back to a designated drop-off location – oftentimes your local grocery store – so they can be entered into the recycling stream. Without that crucial access point, we cannot give plastic bags the second life they deserve.
Once the bags enter the recycling stream they are bailed and shipped to recyclers such as Hilex Poly. There they are cleaned, processed and turned back into a pellet form. Using these pellets, new bags are manufactured and distributed.
So remember, it’s up to all of us to recycle our plastic bags to make sure they take this journey to end up where they belong – as something new and useful and not in the trash.
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