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NextLife Recycling Launches Line of 100% Recycled-Content Pallets

Posted on: Wednesday, 14 December 2005, 12:00 CST

NextLife Recycling, a plastic film and bag recycling company, announces the launch of NextLife Pallets(TM), the first of its new line of 100% recycled-content products made from recovered plastic film scrap such as grocery and retail bags and stretch film. The pallets are built to handle hundreds of use cycles, and are also recyclable. NextLife recycles millions of pounds of post-consumer plastic film each year, recovered from nearly every state and province throughout North America. Recovered plastics are converted into 100% recycle-grade resins at their recycling facilities located in Tennessee and Michigan.

NextLife's post-consumer recycled (PCR) resins are used to make many durable products for industries including household consumer goods, automotive, agriculture, packaging, building, construction and others. With NextLife Pallets(TM), customers can now use 100% recycled-content pallets made from their own waste--creating their own closed-loop recycling program.

"Waste generators and durable goods manufacturers are now getting on board with all of the benefits associated with plastic film recycling," said Jeff Silver, Vice President of Business Development for NextLife Recycling. "Our experienced team of recycling specialists helps put together client-specific programs that have both economic and strategic benefits that go beyond simply selling their plastic film scrap."

Using state-of-the-art technologies, NextLife takes old grocery and retail bags, stretch film and municipal films and turns them into high-quality PCR resins that can be used to make hundreds of new, long-lasting durable plastic products. While the largest market today for plastic film is composite lumber, NextLife offers another choice.

By manufacturing 100% PCR resins, NextLife provides durable goods manufacturers with the recycled content resins they need to meet emerging legislative pressure to use more recycled content in their products. For the film and bag recycling industry, NextLife's approach ensures a more diverse, long-term and consistent recycling environment for plastic film. That is the reason why many major film and bag manufacturers support NextLife.

"Our core business is transforming post-consumer film scrap into new, high-quality PCR resins and new 100% recycled-content products, which are recyclable over and over again," says Daniel Schrager, President of NextLife Recycling. "Our goal is to help the film and bag industry by increasing the amount of film being recovered and recycled today. In 2006, we will produce many recycled content NextLife-branded products including recycling bins, speed bumps and cement slab replacements."

To meet increased customer demands, the site selection and qualification process is underway to open three additional plastic film recycling facilities by the end of 2007 giving NextLife the ability to process 232 million pounds per year of post-consumer scrap film. The first opening is scheduled for May 2006 with a 90,000 square foot facility in Ontario, Canada. Future recycling facilities will be located in Nevada and Texas to accommodate the flow of recovered material and direct it to NextLife's recycling facilities.

About NextLife Recycling

NextLife Recycling is a plastic film and bag recycling company focused on developing post-consumer programs for municipal and commercial markets. NextLife collects and recycles millions of pounds of plastic films each year, with material recovered from nearly every state and province throughout North America. NextLife converts recovered plastic films into 100% recycled-grade resins, which are used to make new products such as trash pails, recycling bins, pallets, containers, and more.

Source: Business Wire

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