Florida Plastic Recycling to open PET recycling plant

Florida Plastic Recycling has announced it will build a plastics recycling facility in Jacksonville, Florida, to process polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles.

A representative with JAXUSA Partnership, a private, nonprofit division of the Jacksonville Chamber, says that after narrowing its search in Florida to two sites in the Jacksonville metro region, the company settled on a site in northwest Jacksonville. Florida Plastic Recycling recently leased a 33,000-square-foot facility in the metro Jacksonville area, citing the accessibility of the port and the logistics infrastructure.

The new facility will bring 30 new jobs to the local economy, JAXUSA says.

The PET plastic bottles the company recycles will be used to create raw plastic flakes that will be used by other companies to make plastics products.

JAXUSA adds that the new company’s presence in the area already has attracted one new company that could purchase its end product and another company, an international plastics furniture manufacturer, is considering building a manufacturing facility in the Jacksonville area. 

According to a report in the Jacksonville Business Journal, Florida Plastic Recycilng has purchased two systems, including a single-stream system, from a German company that will be used for cleaning, sorting, chopping and producing plastic flakes.

An official opening is planned for this May.