Sustainable HDPE Recycling

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Sustainable HDPE Recycling

• October 30, 2007

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Contents

• Introduction to Entropex
• N.A. HDPE Recycling
• Volumes
• End Use Markets
• Threats
• Rising polypropylene contamination
• Offshore HDPE bale shipments
• Sustainability

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Entropex Overview

• Background
• Size
• Our Cause

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Entropex Background

• Entropex is a privately held company
• Operating since 1978
• 180,000 sq. ft. facility located in Sarnia,
  Ontario

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Size

• Largest independent HDPE re-processor in the
  Great Lakes Basin
• Entropex processes
• One of every ten pigmented HDPE bottles recycled
  in the United States which
• Exceeds all HDPE container resin sold in Ontario
  and twice the HDPE resin recovered.
• Sources 2004 (US) National Post-Consumer
  Recycling Report
• 2006 Stewardship Ontario Annual Report

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Our Cause

• To reduce CO2 Emissions through Plastics Recovery

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Contents

• Introduction to Entropex
• N.A. HDPE Recycling
• Volumes
• End Use Markets
• Threats
• Rising polypropylene contamination
• Offshore HDPE bale shipments
• Sustainability

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Contents

• Introduction to Entropex
• N.A. HDPE recycling
• Volumes
• End use markets
• Threats
• Rising polypropylene contamination
• Offshore HDPE bale shipments
• Sustainability

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Threats

• Rising polypropylene contamination
• 30 HDPE supply reduction through detergent
  concentration
• California polypropylene light weighting
  legislation.

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End Market Sensitivity
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Threats

• Estimated 2006 offshore bale shipments at 91.5
  million pounds
• Higher domestic bale prices
• Chinese whole plastic import restrictions

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Sustainability

• Focus on high end markets
• AASHTO certification
• Domestic market support
• Municipal green purchase strategy
• Resin stewardship
• CO2 reduction scorecard

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IMAGES COURTESY OF THE ASSOCIATION OF POST
CONSUMER PLASTIC RECYCLERS