By Mike Verespej | PLASTICS NEWS STAFF STAMFORD, CONN. (Nov. 19, 1:10 p.m. ET) -- As promised, Nestle Waters North America Inc. is beginning to incorporate a high percent of recycled PET into some of its Arrowhead brand water bottles that are made near the $58 million CarbonLite Industries LLC PET bottle-to-bottle food-grade PET recycling [...]
RIVERSIDE, Calif., March 2, 2012—carbonLITE, a leading producer of bottle-grade raw material used to make new bottles, was joined by California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today to announce the official grand opening of the world’s largest bottle-to-bottle plastic recycling plant. Located in Riverside, Ca., the 220,000 sq-ft plant has already created over 100 green [...]
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein recently toured a bottle-to-bottle PET recycling plant in Riverside, Calif. The company, CarbonLITE, recently started operating a 220,000-square-foot facility off Michigan Avenue. The plant takes plastic bottles, breaks them down and recycles them into a product that is used to manufacture new plastic bottles. A formal grand opening is set for [...]