Two companies will build a 40 million lb/year plastics recycling plant on Chicago's South Side.
The companies, Waste Management of North America Inc., Oak Brook, Ill., and Du Pont Co., Wilmington, Del., formed a recycling joint venture that plans to start up another plant in Philadelphia in late March 1990.
The Chicago plant will separate from municipal solid waste and recycle used plastics from 21 communities into a broad range of automotive, consumer, and building material products.
It will recycle mainly polyethylene terephthalate, used in soft drink bottles, and high density polyethylene, used in milk, water, and household cleaning products containers.
The joint venture, Plastic Recycling Alliance LP, hopes to show that plastics are potentially the most recyclable of materials and offer good business opportunities, a Du Pont spokesman said.
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