AERT Announces Completes Initial Phase of Construction Project

Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc. announced that construction of the initial phase of its plastic recycling facility near Watts, Okla., is nearing completion and is scheduled to start up in the first quarter of next year. The company has also filed for LEED certification and anticipates that the Watts facility will soon be the first LEED certified recycling facility in Oklahoma. The initial phase will be focused on recycling low end, highly contaminated waste polyethylene films into bulk plastic for AERT's composite manufacturing plants in Arkansas.

Upon startup of the facility, the company will promptly move into second stage construction whereby additional storage and equipment will be installed to allow recycled polyethylene plastics to be blended and reformulated into Green recycled plastic resins. These resins will be sold to third party manufacturers for ever increasing sustainable and recycled content applications.

The Watts recycling facility was funded by Allstate Investments with additional financial support from the Cherokee Nation, the State of Oklahoma, Adair County, local government entities, and the United States Departments of Commerce and Energy which helped provide site infrastructure support including road and sewer improvements for the area.