According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), plastics comprise 12% of municipal solid waste, with containers and packaging making up the largest part of that percentage.

• Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away
• Over 1,600 businesses are involved in recycling post-consumer plastics.
• Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures a year! Ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? It’s twice the size of Texas and is floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. It’s also 80 percent plastic, and weighs in at 3.5 million tons.
• Only 13.3% of plastic packaging was recycled in 2008.
• For every 1 ton of plastic that is recycled we save the equivalent of 2 people’s energy use for 1 year, the amount of water used by 1 person in 2 month’s time and almost 2000 pounds of oil.

At ASR we are doing our part to improve the reuse of industrial scrap plastic.  We provide value to our suppliers by developing solutions or increased value to plastic recycling material.

Working together with your team, we find solutions to your plastic scrap waste stream problems. 

Our goal is to keep plastics out of landfills and in the hands of end-users.  We can develop a scrap management solution to collect and deliver full or mixed loads of paper, plastic, metal from all over North America to meet your recycling needs.

Recyclable Plastic Types

Plastic is a broad term, used to describe a wide number of synthetic or semi-synthetic organics. While all plastic is recyclable, if you want to recycle plastic, you have to recycle it according to its specific chemical composition, or polymer type. To make recycling easier please see the categories below for the recycable plastics we take:

What Does ASR Offer?

ASR is your trusted partner, handling all of your scrap plastic. We will develop your plastic recycling program making you an essential part of the movement that doesn’t depend on landfills. We will develop  a comprehensive recycling programs that handle all forms and grades of your scrap plastic.

More Plastic Recycling Facts

• It takes up to 500 years to decompose plastic items in landfills.
• 1,000–2,000 gallons of gasoline can be saved by recycling just one ton of plastics.
• Producing plastic products from recycled plastics reduces energy requirements by 66 percent.
• Over 1,600 business organizations in the U.S. are involved in recycling post-consumer plastic items.

Plastics Recycling Process