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NexTrex® Plastic Bag & Film Recycling Plastic bags and film packaging are important durable and lightweight protection for food and merchandise in transit. But these materials SHOULD NOT be recycled in most curbside carts or single stream programs. Thankfully, many grocers and retailers and some communities provide specific collection bins for bags and film to be recycled separately from other recyclables.
VIDEO Plastic Film gets New Life with the NexTrex Recycling Program
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VIDEO Learn How Your Recyclables Can Become a Composite Deck with NexTrex
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT April 22, 2022 TREX COMPANY AND CNG ANNOUNCE THE NATIONS TOP RECYCLING SCHOOLS FROM ANNUAL PLASTIC FILM CHALLENGE WINCHESTER, Va. (April 22, 2022) For eco-conscious students across the country, it pays to be green this year more than ever! Over the course of the last five months, students in grades K-12 worked together to collect and recycle the most polyethylene plastic film for the chance to win high-performance Trex products to beautify their campuses. For the first time ever, students involved in the latest challenge also competed for the chance to win cash prizes for their schools, thanks to corporate sponsor Charter Next Generation (CNG), one of the leading providers of specialty polyethylene films in North America. Click here to review the winners of the 15th annual Trex Plastic Film Recycling Challenge.
DID YOU KNOW...
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Most clean and dry polyethylene (PE), labeled as #2 or #4, plastic film and bags are recyclable at participating retail and local drop-off locations.
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Trex® purchases returned consumer bags and film from the majority of grocery and retail stores in the U.S., making Trex® the largest PE film recycler in the United States.
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Trex's premium composite decking is made from recycled grocery bags and other plastic film.
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These materials are not normally accepted in curbside programs because they can get caught in the machines that sort other valuable recyclables like paper, cans, and bottles. And bags are generally too dirty after their trip in the back of the recycling truck to be recycled, even if they are collected at the recycling facility.
More than just plastic bags are recyclable. APPROVED ITEMS FOR NEXTREX® PROGRAMS
All plastic must be clean, dry and free of food residue.
Pallet wrap and
stretch film
Grocery Bags
Bread BaGS
CASE OVERWRAP
Dry Cleaning Bags
Newspaper Sleeves
Ziploc® and other resealable food storage bags
produce bags
Product Wrap
retail bags
air pillows
bubble wrap
plastic shipping envelopes
electronic wrap
PLUS
All plastic must be clean, dry and free of food residue.
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