Top 20 Plastics Recyclers

Company Name

and Address

Web Site

Company CEO or President

Pounds Recycled

No. of

Facilities

Commonly Processed Resins or Types of Scrap

Avangard Innovative, 11906 Brittmoore Park Dr., Houston, Texas 77041

www.avaicg.com

Rick Perez

257 million

22

PE, PP, PET, PVC

Custom Polymers Inc., 700 Tuckaseegee Rd., Charlotte, N.C. 28208

www.custompolymers.com

Phil Howerton, John N.

Calhoun II

210 million

9

PE, PET, PP, PVC

Maine Plastics Inc., 1817 Kenoshia Rd., Zion, Ill. 60099

www.maineplastics.com

Robert Render

96 million

2

PC, PS, PP, ABS

Nicos Polymers Group, 750 Banoor Rd., Nazareth, Pa. 18064

www.nicospolymers.com

Kevin Cronin

90 million

1

PS, PVC, PP, PE

Norwich Plastics, 400 Dolph St. N., Cambridge, Ontario, Canada N3H 2A7

www.norwichplastics.com

Bill Grosse,

Sales Manager

80 million

4

Flexible PVC, Rigid PVL, Rubber

Omni Resource Recovery Inc., 570 Birch Ct., Colton, Calif. 92324

www.omnirecovery.com

Joe Castro

75 million

8

LDPE, HDPE, PP, PET

United Plastic Recycling, 4290 Alatex Rd., Montgomery, Ala., 36108

www.unitedplasticrecycling.com

John Sullivan

72 million

3

PP, PE, Nylon, PS

ACI Plastics, 2945 Davison Rd., Flint, Mich. 78506

www.aciplastics.com

Scott Melton

45 million

1

PC ABS, PP, HDPE, TPE

Talco Plastics, 1000 W. Rincon St., Corona, Calif. 92880

www.talcoplastics.com

Jack Shedd

36 million

1

PE, PP, PS, ABS

Denton Plastics, 18811 N.E. San Rafael St., Portland, Ore. 97230

www.denplas.com

Dennis Denton

36 million*

1

HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE, PP

Wellmark Plastics, Inc., 355 Waketa Dr., Asheboro, N.C. 27205

www.wellmarkplastics.com

Brad Wellington

35 million*

1

PE, PP, PS, PC

Nemo Plastics Inc., 4989 Long Island Dr., Atlanta, Ga. 30327

Eric Sidewater

30 million

1

PET, HDPE, PP, LDPE

National Plastics & Manufacturing Co., 11 McFadden Rd., Easton Pa., 18045

Gabe Scudese

24 million

1

PS, PP, PC, PET

Plastic Revolutions, P.O. Box 1616, Reidsville, N.C. 27323-1616

www.plasticrevolutions.com

Ed Handy,

General Manager

24 million*

1

HDPE, LDPE, PP

Granulation Plastique 2000, 2205 Industriel, Laval, Quebec, Canada H7S 1P8

Jacques Jarry

22 million

1

ABS, LDPE, PS, PMMA

Rainer Plastics, 1101 Ledwich Ave., Yakima, Wash. 98909

www.rainierplastics.com

William Shields

20 million*

1

PET

ARK Inc., 704 Triport Rd., Georgetown, Ky. 40324

www.ark-ky.com

Steve Cecil, COO

14 million

7

PP, TSOP, HDPE, LDPE

Good Fortune Trading Co., 596 S. Sierra Madre Blvd., San Marino, Calif. 91108

David Itsu

11 million

1

PE, PP, Acrylic, HIPS, ABS, PC, PET

Loajo Plastics Inc., 9330 Byron St., Schiller Park, Ill. 60176-2310

www.loajo.com

Ellis Seabolt

10.5 million

1

LDPE, HDPE, PP, PET

Round 2  Technologies Inc., 6301 E. Stassney Lane, Suite 400, Austin, Texas 78744

www.round2.net

Ian Bagnall

9.3 million

7

PC, ABS, HDPE, LDPE, PS

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