Recycling Agricultural Plastics: Logistic & Marketing Challenges, and Successes

Presented at the 2014 Plastics Symposium of the Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center and the Pennsylvania Plastics Innovation & Research CenterThis presentation is a forward-looking as well as retrospective update on the status of recycling markets for agricultural plastics. From experience we have learned much about characteristics of likely markets for these plastics (which tend to be dirtier, often dark- or multi-colored, made with additives and a mix of resins, as well as expensive to collect), but changes in equipment, technologies and perceptions are turning some of the truisms of the past upside down