Proving Yourself in a Sustainable World

Energy converting

Thinner film, recycled liner—what's left? The matrix. At Spear, matrix represents 85 percent of its waste. According to Muenzer, finding productive uses for matrix is paramount. "We have partnered with a variety of waste energy manufacturers—the guys that basically take scrap and turn it into biofuel pellets that go to energy plants to burn as clean fuel," he says. While not 100 percent of Spear's matrix is currently recycled, the company anticipates that during the second quarter of this year, 50 percent of its matrix will be recycled into waste energy pellets.