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Recycler Secrets brings you insights from sustainable experts from around the United States.
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Saturday May 25, 2019
Saturday May 25, 2019
Recently we attended the Michigan Recycling Coalition's 37th Annual Recycling Conference and were able to sit down with Paul England of Pratt Industries.
Paul has been a industry professional with over 40-years awesome knowledge and today he shares with us about how the fiber recycling industry is moving forward.
Pratt Recycling is a subsidiary of Pratt Industries, the 5th largest corrugated packaging company in the USA and the world’s largest, privately-held 100% recycled paper and packaging company. Pratt Recycling Division is a full service recycler with 16 recycling facilities. Pratt utilizes the paper products collected in the production of its 100% recycled content paper and packaging solutions. Our mission is to create sustainable recycling solutions for our customers that maximize waste diversion, create cost savings and revenue stream for valuable recyclables previously landfilled, all the while minimizing the environmental impact by preserving natural resources for future generations.
Every year Pratt diverts 2.2 million tons of waste paper, other recyclable materials and waste-to-clean energy materials from the landfill. Some items that cannot be recycled are used as fuel for Pratt’s clean energy plant which powers the paper-making process. We close the loop!
Topics Include:
- How Pratt utilizes “close loop” recycling
- Pratt's network of Materials Recovery Facility (recycle center) and how they use those to feed the paper mills
- Trends in the fiber recycling markets – paper and old corrugated cardboard
- How the global fiber markets effect the fiber industry and way
- How landfills are becoming the newest competitor to recyclers like Pratt due to the costs to process / tip fees for recycling
- Dual stream & single stream styles of curbside recycling - what functions better
- Changes in packaging – what was once highly recyclable manufacturing has changes into packing that is not recyclable at all
- Book recycling & book shredding
- How cardboard is becoming a difficult because of the direct to home sales via the internet affect. Some terms used here are impregnated materials aka contamination.
- Glass is an issue in single stream recycling because it is impregnated into cardboard, Paul explains why
- Pratts is building a New Paper Mill in Ohio near Dayton Ohio – This facility will process ½ million tons per year
- What is the last book Paul read – Red Mountain & Red Mountain Rising
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