Nonmetallics

Encorp Pacific, a Canada-based nonprofit that promotes beverage container recycling, is joining a British Columbia initiative to increase participation in the province’s beverage container recycling program through its Go Green Bottle Depot & Recycling depot.

The promotion, dubbed "Return-It to Win-It," runs until the end of June. On top of receiving a refund for their returned beverage containers, visitors can enter to win the grand prize, a Broil King grill.

Go Green Bottle Depot & Recycling is one of 42 British Columbia recycling centers participating in the campaign.

"There’s no doubt that people know recycling is great for the environment. But we also want them to know that it’s easy to make it a routine in their lives, especially with the convenience and proximity of a local depot to help them recycle responsibly," says Malcolm Harvey of Encorp Pacific.

The Progressive Bag Affiliates (PBA) of the American Chemistry Council (ACC)has launched an initiative to promote plastic bag recycling throughout the United States. Several of the country’s biggest bag manufacturers will begin printing a message on their bags to encourage customers to recycle them at participating stores.

The PBA also has unveiled a new comprehensive at-store recycling toolkit designed to make it easy for stores to recycle plastic bags.

API Corp., Hilex Poly Co. Inc., Inteplast and Superbag Corp., manufacturers that represent more than 90 percent of U.S. plastic bag production, will incorporate the new logo and message as a standard feature on their bags. These companies will offer the new logo to customers that participate in a bag recycling program.

"The goal of the PBA is to gather the leaders of the plastic bag industry together with major recyclers to effect meaningful change in plastic bag recycling," says Steve Russell, managing director for the ACC Plastics Division. "This unified awareness campaign, with a clear message printed on millions of bags across the nation, will be one of the most widely distributed environmental messages ever created."

According to the PBA, an estimated 812 million pounds of post-consumer film (including plastic bags) was recovered in 2006, representing a 24 percent increase from figures for 2005.

The new at-store recycling toolkit that has been developed by the ACC and PBA will also feature the new logo in a suite of tools that are designed to make it easier for stores to begin a plastic bag recycling program. The toolkit offers bins and signs for store entrances and exits, checkout signs and pins to raise awareness and municipal bins to be used at the curbside. Information on ordering the toolkit is available at www.plasticbagrecycling.org.

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The U.S. Department of Justice has concluded its Hart-Scott-Rodino review of International Paper’s announced acquisition of Weyerhaeuser’s containerboard packaging and recycling business. Regulatory reviews in several other countries are ongoing. The transaction is expected to be final in the third quarter of 2008.

International Paper, based in Memphis, Tenn., signed a definitive agreement with Weyerhaeuser, based in Federal Way, Wash., March 15 to acquire its containerboard packaging and recycling business, which includes nine linerboard mills, 72 box plants in the United States and four in Mexico and more than 30 specialty packaging, kraft bag and recycling operations.