NPE2012, an international plastics show produced by the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI), has appointed Maine Plastics, Zion, Ill., as the official recycler of the conference. The SPI says it expects the scrap plastics generated in one day at the show, to be held April 1-5, 2012, in Orlando, will amount to tens of thousands of pounds of material.
According to Maine Plastics, the company has provided recycling services for the NPE for the previous five years.
SPI expects to have more than 60,000 attendees to the convention. Maine Plastics will coordinate with SPI, the OCCC, exhibitors and vendors to administer the recycling program.
David Spitulnik, Maine Plastics president, says, “Our goal is to equal or surpass the NPE2009 recycling program in which we collected and recycled 95 percent of the recoverable materials, amounting to 125,000 pounds.”
To highlight the importance of recycling PET, SPI also says it is organizing a PET recycling demonstration and exhibit during the convention that is designed to be an education and awareness platform for the industry.
More information on the event can be found at www.npe.org.