Today, taking items for a recent Resource Recycling newsletter, I will say a few words about a variety of items happening in several states. I'll start off with Texas, naturally. There, an article talked about three new processing sites to recover and pelletize plastic film to come on-line in 2020.
I find the Texas-based Avangard Innovative company plans to build one plant in Houston, another in Nevada and a third in Mexico. These plants, costing about $30 million each, will have a yearly capability to process close to 100 million pounds. The company, headquartered in Houston, already operates a processing plant there which handles 48 million pounds per year of LDPE film.
Going next to California, I find their lawmakers recently passed a bill requiring the use of recycled plastic in beverage containers. — Coca-Cola and Pepsi are already using some recycled plastic in their beverage containers. There, the producers of most plastic beverage containers sold in the state will need to include at least 10% recycled plastic in all their product line by 2021, increasing to 50% by 2030. Interesting enough, the draft of the original bill required 100% recycled content by 2035, which was lowered to 75% by 2030, ending up at 50% by 2030.
