100% Recycled Plastics Pallet Introduced

NextLife Recycling has launched its NextLife Pallets, which, the company says, is the first of its new line of 100 percent 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. Recovered plastics are converted into 100% recycle-grade resins at their recycling facilities located in Tennessee and Michigan.

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

"Our core business is transforming post-consumer film scrap into new, high-quality PCR resins and new 100 percent 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 expected demand for the product NextLife is looking at opening 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.