Alaska
American Cierra Plastics brings mobile plastics processing unit to Alaska
The cellular recycling system. (Photograph courtesy of PK. Consulting.)
Juneau, Alaska (KINY) – American Cierra Plastics delivered a cellular plastics processing system to Alaska, the primary of its form.
Housed fully in a 53-foot trailer, the recycling system is designed to take plastic collected from Alaska’s seashores and native communities and convert it into recycled plastic lumber.
“Now we have been constructing methods which are in use worldwide, however that is the primary time we have now delivered a system that was absolutely moveable,” stated American Cierra Plastics President, Paul Vanderpool. “This might be actually transformational for rural Alaska, and different rural communities all through the world, permitting full utilization of their waste plastics.
“This method breaks the standard hub-and-spoke recycled plastics processing paradigm, the place all the fabric is shipped to a centralized facility. As an alternative, you’ll be able to stockpile the plastic domestically, convey within the processing system, convert the plastic to product, depart the product for native consumption, and transfer the processing system on to the following group,” Vanderpool added.
The strategy was conceived by PKS Consulting’s President, Patrick Simpson, who’s receiving funding from the Environmental Analysis Company’s Small Enterprise Innovation Analysis program.
PKS Consulting, Inc., and their subsidiary Alaska Plastics Restoration, converts waste plastic into recycled plastic building merchandise.
Simpson sees this method as a sport changer for rural coastal communities all through Alaska, the place landfills are filling quick (or full) and plastics are plentiful, saying “transport prices would make a standard strategy infeasible.” Simpson hopes that via packages like this, “plastic may be considered as an area useful resource and never as trash.”
Pilot demonstrations are scheduled this fall for Palmer and Seward Alaska. The corporate stated preliminary product gross sales for freight dunnage have been secured.
