The Plastics Environmental Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers
(SPE) today announced the recipients of the Global Plastics Environmental
Conference (GPEC) 2010 Environmental Stewardship Awards.
Presentations will take place at the Division's Global Plastics Environmental
Conference (GPEC), taking place March 8-10 in Orlando, FL, U.S.A. The awards
reflect the conference theme "Sustainability & Recycling: Raising the Bar in
Today's Economy."
The award recipients are listed below.
- Nicos Polymers Group (Nazareth, PA): CHAIRMAN'S AWARD for a proprietary
process for the removal of continuous fiber reinforcement from flexible
composites, making possible the cleanest recovery of the valuable polymer
substrate.
- Delta Plastics of the South (Little Rock, AR): DANIEL EBERHARDT
ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP AWARD. Having achieved its extraordinary goal of
reclaiming and recycling virtually 100% of its used manufactured LLDPE
irrigation tubing, Delta Plastics is now recycling a large portion of
competitors' tubing and an additional 1,436,000 pounds (650 metric tons) per
month of miscellaneous LDPE products into certified post-consumer resin.
- Arkema Inc. (Philadelphia, PA): "Plastic Materials from Renewable Sources" .
Pebax RNew is the first engineering thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) range made
from renewable resources.
- BIOtech Products LLC (Randolph, New Jersey): "New Environmental Technologies
in Conventional Plastic Materials". BIOchem organometallic additives render
conventional plastics landfill biodegradable (in accordance with ASTM D 5526 for
anaerobic biodegradation in landfills), while retaining or improving normal
service life and processing as typically expected of organotitanates.
- Eco Research Institute Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan): "Emerging Technologies in
Materials, Processing & Applications". New technologies for pulverizing
paper into powders as minute as 50 ́m (50 X 10-6 m) and compounding the paper
with plastics yield pelletized eco-friendly plastics for mass-production
molding.
- VAST Enterprises LLC (Minneapolis, MN): "Design for Sustainability".
Composite pavers produced from a proprietary blend of up to 95% recycled car
tires and plastic containers meet the demanding requirements for aesthetics,
durability, sustainability, and installation efficiency.
- Amway (Ada, MI): "Design for Sustainability". The eSpring System is an
innovative water purifier that incorporates a sustainable design based on
life-cycle assessment without sacrificing the features and benefits that
consumers desire.
- Associated Packaging Technologies (Chadds Ford, PA): "Plastics Recycling
Technologies and Applications". A range of thermoformed crystalline PET (CPET)
trays is designed with smaller environmental impacts than traditional CPET
products.
- Mannington Mills Inc. (Salem, NJ): "Carpet/Floor/Wall Coverings Recycling".
Mannington has expanded LOOP, their program for recycling post-consumer carpet
into carpet and resilient, to now include recycling vinyl composition tile
(VCT).
- Mack Molding Company (Arlington, VT) and BigBelly Solar (Needham, MA):
"Enabling Technologies in Processes and Procedures". The BigBelly Solar
Compactor is a solar-powered compacting trash receptacle for large scale,
low-cost municipal waste collection; Mack injection molds the solar bubble,
fabricates the back panel and door, procures over 150 unique parts, and totally
assembles the compactor and optional recycler for direct shipment to BigBelly
Solar's customers all over the world.
The GPEC conference takes place March 8-10 in The Florida Hotel &
Conference Center, Orlando, Florida USA. The awards will be presented at a
banquet on evening of Tuesday, March 9th. More information on GPEC 2010 is
available at
www.sperecycling.org, or www.4spe.org, or by contacting Lesley Kyle at + 1-203-740-5452
or lskyle@4spe.org.
Posted Feb 11, 2010
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