This story originally appeared in the February 2017 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   The growth of plastics recycling since its infancy in the 1980s has been remarkable. Back in those early days, there were no post-consumer HDPE reclaimers and Wellman Industries was the only vertically integrated PET reclaimer. St. Jude Polymer was...

This story originally appeared in the April 2017 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. The growth of plastics recycling since its infancy in the early 1980s has been remarkable. Back in those early days, there were no post-consumer HDPE reclaimers and Wellman Industries was the only vertically integrated PET reclaimer. St. Jude Polymer was a...