RECYCLE

Recycling Paper

Transportation costs are significant with a heavy material like recycled paper, and paper mills don't like reaching more than 300 miles away for feedstock. Fortunately, several paper mills in northeastern Ohio and a few in the southwestern quadrant of the state are able to serve all of Ohio, as well as parts of Pennsylvania, Indiana and Kentucky.

One of the world's largest makers of recycled paperboard and packaging products has a subsidiary here in Ohio. The industry has recently developed new recycling technology that allows them to accept food-waste contaminated paper, such as old pizza boxes. This waste paper, which could not previously be accepted for recycling, is now processed into 100% recycled paperboard.

Used paper on its way to being recycled

Recycling Plastic

Ohio’s recycling industry has done well to develop technologies for easy recycling of plastics such as milk and detergent bottles (HDPE) and soda and water bottles (PET). In fact, Ohio is home to the leading supplier of recycled PET plastic resin in North America.

Old PET bottles are pelletized and used to make new plastic products

These days though, more and more plastic packaging is being made by mixing different kinds of plastics together, to create thinner, stronger products. These mixed plastics are much harder to recycle, due to contamination problems and the difficulty of separating the plastics types out again.

In southern Ohio, however, a leading company is using new technology that enables them to recycle these mixed plastics into products for the transportation and highway industries.
Over 4,000 tons of recycled plastics are used each year to make products like wheel chocks, speed bumps, scuff liners for tractor-trailers, and parts for guardrails. These products contain around 98% recycled plastic.

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