Bottle Recycling Firm coming to Jax

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Per Waste Dive News:

http://www.wastedive.com/news/new-7m-bottle-recycling-facility-planned-for-jacksonville-fl/438561/

New $7M bottle recycling facility planned for Jacksonville, FL

Brazilian company Clodam do Brasil Ltda, operating as Florida Plastic Recycling LLC, is planning a $7 million plastic bottle recycling facility in Jacksonville, as reported by Plastics News.
The city's access to port, rail and highway infrastructure made it an attractive site. Bottles will be shipped in and flake will be shipped out.
The company has signed a lease for a 100,000-square-foot space and will employ about 30 people.

According to the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, which has been helping the company navigate plans for the project, both Florida and Georgia were considered as locations. Though Jacksonville's transport access, technically educated workforce and strong local recycling program were all seen as positive factors.

The city has seen increased diversion rates since Republic Services opened a new $18 million material recovery facility in 2012. Local officials have also been working with EverBank Field, home of the Jacksonville Jaguars, to improve diversion efforts during games. The latest state information shows Duval County, which includes the city, with a diversion rate of nearly 50% — not including waste-to-energy as allowed by state accounting standards.

With bottled water sales continuing to grow, the plastics industry sees this sector as a top priority and recyclers are looking for new ways to encourage more diversion. A new campaign was recently launched in North Carolina tying recycling to job creation. New facilities such as this Jacksonville operation can help further reinforce that connection and also support the push for more domestic processing capacity.

[thelakelander]

I wonder where this will be located and what they'll be shipping via rail?

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I wonder where this will be located and what they'll be shipping via rail?

Find out where that 100k sq ft lease is. I assume it has to be next to rail.

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Per Recycling Today:

Florida Plastic Recycling has announced it will build a plastics recycling facility in Jacksonville, Florida, to process polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles.

A representative with JAXUSA Partnership, a private, nonprofit division of the Jacksonville Chamber, says that after narrowing its search in Florida to two sites in the Jacksonville metro region, the company settled on a site in northwest Jacksonville. Florida Plastic Recycling recently leased a 33,000-square-foot facility in the metro Jacksonville area, citing the accessibility of the port and the logistics infrastructure.

The new facility will bring 30 new jobs to the local economy, JAXUSA says.

The PET plastic bottles the company recycles will be used to create raw plastic flakes that will be used by other companies to make plastics products.

JAXUSA adds that the new company's presence in the area already has attracted one new company that could purchase its end product and another company, an international plastics furniture manufacturer, is considering building a manufacturing facility in the Jacksonville area.

According to a report in the Jacksonville Business Journal, Florida Plastic Recycilng has purchased two systems, including a single-stream system, from a German company that will be used for cleaning, sorting, chopping and producing plastic flakes.

An official opening is planned for this May.