Plastics Recycler Adds Hangers to Mix

Mountain Valley Recycling, a Florida-based plastic film and bag recycling company, has developed a method to recycle plastic hangars. The goal is to convert the plastic hangars to recycled-grade resins.

With the introduction of the new process, Mountain Valley has added a recycling line to its production facility in Tennessee. This will allow the facility to handle more than 20 million pounds of mixed plastic hangers a year.

The company also has secured a contract with a national retailer, which should provide Mountain Valley with millions of the retailer’s plastic hangers by this March.

"Our automated recycling systems can separate the polypropylene and polystyrene -- the materials used to make plastic hangers -- from one another with no manual labor at all," says Daniel Schrager, president of Mountain Valley Recycling. "The result is clean, certified polypropylene and polystyrene post-consumer recycled resins (regrind and pellets) that can be used to make many long-lasting durable products."