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THESTREET.COM, ANNIKA MENGISEN, 4/20/2007
"ECO2 Plastics founder Gary DeLaurentiis has exposed recycling's dirty secret: A typical plastics recycling plant consumes about 4,500 gallons of water per hour, 24/7. And those 40,000,000 gallons consumed and dumped down the drain each year are contaminated with detergents, defoaming agents, pH balancers, paper labels and bits of plastic."
Ca. Company Finds New Way To Recycle Plastic Bottles
and KGO-TV/DT, Wayne Freedman, 4/23/2007
"Despite the worry that global warming has generated, we've already thrown some 40 billion plastic bottles into landfills this year. Why so many? For starters, they are expensive to recycle, and don't yield much of a profit. But a small company in the Central Valley is trying to change that."
Recycled plastic to get clean bill of health
Tangledwing, 5/16/2007
“Seeing what water-based plants were discharging into the environment made me start looking into different ways of recycling," says DeLaurentiis, who is now at ECO2 Plastics in Riverbank, California. To clean up the industry and make it more profitable, DeLaurentiis has developed a system for stripping bottles before they are recycled that dispenses with water altogether so there is no waste to pollute water supplies.”
Recycled plastic to get clean bill of health
New Scientist, Michael Reilly, 5/09/2007
“A new generation of plastics recycling plants promises to change all that. The plants will use technologies that reduce or even eliminate the need for water and produce plastics clean enough for food packaging, at a lower cost than existing techniques. If successful, such plants could significantly increase the number of plastic bottles that are recycled in the US and Europe each year.”
USCAR's VRP Contracts with ECO2 Plastics to Explore 'Rinse and Recycle' Applications
USCAR Press Release, 6/25/2007
“As part of its work, the VRP recently contracted with ECO2 Plastics Inc. (ECOO.OB), of San Francisco, to evaluate its proprietary polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic recycling technology. The ECO2 technology removes substances of concern from plastics recovered from “shredder residue” - the material left when end-of-life vehicles (ELV), household appliances and other large items are "shredded" by a large, grinding hammer-mill, or shredder, as part of their recycling process.”
Green for Good
THESTREET.COM, ANNIKA MENGISEN, 4/20/2007
"ECO2 Plastics founder Gary DeLaurentiis has exposed recycling's dirty secret: A typical plastics recycling plant consumes about 4,500 gallons of water per hour, 24/7. And those 40,000,000 gallons consumed and dumped down the drain each year are contaminated with detergents, defoaming agents, pH balancers, paper labels and bits of plastic."
Ca. Company Finds New Way To Recycle Plastic Bottles
and KGO-TV/DT, Wayne Freedman, 4/23/2007
"Despite the worry that global warming has generated, we've already thrown some 40 billion plastic bottles into landfills this year. Why so many? For starters, they are expensive to recycle, and don't yield much of a profit. But a small company in the Central Valley is trying to change that."
Recycled plastic to get clean bill of health
Tangledwing, 5/16/2007
“Seeing what water-based plants were discharging into the environment made me start looking into different ways of recycling," says DeLaurentiis, who is now at ECO2 Plastics in Riverbank, California. To clean up the industry and make it more profitable, DeLaurentiis has developed a system for stripping bottles before they are recycled that dispenses with water altogether so there is no waste to pollute water supplies.”
Recycled plastic to get clean bill of health
New Scientist, Michael Reilly, 5/09/2007
“A new generation of plastics recycling plants promises to change all that. The plants will use technologies that reduce or even eliminate the need for water and produce plastics clean enough for food packaging, at a lower cost than existing techniques. If successful, such plants could significantly increase the number of plastic bottles that are recycled in the US and Europe each year.”
USCAR's VRP Contracts with ECO2 Plastics to Explore 'Rinse and Recycle' Applications
USCAR Press Release, 6/25/2007
“As part of its work, the VRP recently contracted with ECO2 Plastics Inc. (ECOO.OB), of San Francisco, to evaluate its proprietary polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic recycling technology. The ECO2 technology removes substances of concern from plastics recovered from “shredder residue” - the material left when end-of-life vehicles (ELV), household appliances and other large items are "shredded" by a large, grinding hammer-mill, or shredder, as part of their recycling process.”