GOEX Talks Trash About Closed-loop Plastic Recycling

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The GOEX material return system is a tightly controlled, customer-to-customer process. “To establish lot control and traceability, returned customer scrap is specifically assigned for use only in that customer’s recycled sheet order,” Gray says. “Our closed-loop process uses only plastic from customers that are trained to handle it” with the kind of respect that will render it recyclable and saleable. “There’s more value to the customer in being able to expand a product line that has true recycled content,” Gray says. “It’s a process of educating the customer to elevate what he may have previously considered to be trash into a recycled plastic sheet that has value and is useful,” Gray says. “The value to the customer becomes having the ability to market recycled product.