ONN_Green Ohio_Weisenbach Recycled Products

"Don't bury it! Make something." Dan Weisenbach tells why recycling "just makes sense" and what inspires his company's products.
Columbus Company Makes Recycled Goods | Friday, January 29, 2010 6:06 AM | By Harrison Hove
COLUMBUS, Ohio — One green-thinking Columbus man has made it his mission to invent new creations from used materials.
It started as a big idea that was built into a business.
"We take a look at a material that's available in excess or as scrap and then we try to figure out what can be made from that material," said Weisenbach Recycled Products President Dan Weisenbach.
Whether its circuit boards, tire rubber or plastic caps, Weisenbach is always thinking how he can recycle old items.
It is the challenge of reusing materials that led Weisenbach to develop funnels and spouts made of plastic from caps, used glass into neat plaques, and old yogurt cups turned into ice cream scoops.
"You have to think, does this make sense, to bury this forever? Or is there something else that can be done with it? Can someone else use it?" added Weisenbach.
The chances are they can.
"The plastic cap, the next time it rains it floats down the street into the storm drain, out into the creek, the creek flows down into a bigger river, the river flows into the ocean or a lake and now its floating out in the middle of the ocean," explained Weisenbach.
He devised a way to reuse the unpopular plastic. His latest creation was turning caps into funnels and spouts. They snap right onto popular liquids to guard against spills.
"Every day we feel like we accomplish something," said Weisenbach.
His company is developing viable retail products in a Columbus warehouse from materials once destined for a landfill.

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