Engineered Plastic Systems - Plastic Recycling - Virtual Tour

This video was funded through a grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO).

Engineered Plastic Systems is located in Elgin, Illinois. EPS uses 100% post-consumer #2 HDPE plastics to create a variety of plastic lumber and plastic lumber products. EPS uses tons of #2 plastic each year, giving extended useful life to millions of containers that may otherwise have ended up in a landfill. See their website at: www.epsplasticlumber.com.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Recycling
• Electronics Recycling
• Plastics

[rasmasyean]

Thats pretty cool. But if you're going to recycle the plastic into a chair or something, why do you just have to make it like a lumber piece. Why don't you just make one big solid chair / table (or perhaps just a few peices) rather than waste "energy" to assemble it with screws and such from like 30 pieces of "wood".

[whoisbid]

Fantastic Video!