Recycling Today – February 21, 2024
The Circular Economy Development Center (CEDC), Colorado Springs, Colorado, is working to forge private sector connections in southern Colorado to help boost plastic recycling prospects in that region.
The CEDC says an early February stakeholder meeting it organized highlighted examples presented by companies that are engaged in private sector plastic recycling efforts.
Business owners, government representatives and elected officials who attended the meeting heard from Front Range Transload, a Pueblo, Colorado-based material handling company that aggregates less-than-truckload shipments of material until there is sufficient volume to ship a truckload or full railcar of material to take to market.
Among Front Range’s customers is Denver-based recycling services provider Direct Polymers, a company preparing to close the loop on plastics by launching a manufacturing business in Colorado, according to the CEDC.
The CEDC says it is playing a role by helping coordinate such companies and services “as part of circular economy development and showing other recyclers how materials could be stored for combined transport by rail or truck.”