Polyflow Partners with Ohio County Park System on Plastics, Rubber Recycling Project

Polyflow LLC, an Akron, Ohio-based company that is developing a system to convert mixed stream of dirty plastic and rubber into valuable chemicals, has aligned with two Cleveland-area groups, Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP) and Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association, as well as more than 150 volunteers to capture plastic and rubber from the Cuyahoga River on May 15.

The collected material would then be delivered to Polyflow, where it could be recycled into a viable new product.

The company reports that more than 300 pounds of plastic and rubber waste was recovered by the volunteers during “RiverDay 2010”. In addition to the recovery of plastics and rubber waste, more than 60 bags of trash, 150 pounds of steel and scrap metal, and 49 tires were collected.

Polyflow will process the rubber and plastic recovered from the park service event at the Polyflow June 11th demonstration in front of interested spectators and investors.

“After Polyflow gathers the needed investment to fully commercialize a facility in the Cleveland/Akron area, we hope to exponentially increase the amount of plastic and rubber waste gathered at the CVNP events and divert the pollutants to Polyflow and process them into a valuable end product. Everyone wins, especially our future generations,” says Jay Schabel, Polyflow’s CEO.