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.

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[Ecneuqes]

People probably like the faux wood look but the more important reason is that it would likely cost too much for tooling and energy to mold individual shapes. This way it is comparatively easy and cheap to set up a process for manufacturing simple plank shapes and one isn't held to one or two designs for the final product.

[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!