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Recycling
& Re-use
Companies involved in recycling
raw materials, making products out of recycled materials, or buying
& selling used merchandise
PLASTICS: AERTA, TWP, UFPT, WLM
METALS: IMR, SCHN
RESIDENTIAL WASTE: HIRI.pk
INDUSTRIAL: FASC.OB, STHK.OB
TIRES: GRN
OTHER: ARCI.ob, ITRO.ob, KAI, RS.V, TTRIF.pk
NOT INCLUDED: AA, CENX, ECRE, ENA.V, FNCO,
KLU, NARL, PCYL, PLTK, RCAI, RECY, RLM,
TMXIQ.OB, UK.V, VZZ.AL
Plastics
AERTA
- Advanced Environmental
Recycling Technologies
AERTA develops and manufactures composite
building materials from plastic and wood fiber waste for applications
in the construction industry, for use as a substitute for wood and
plastic filler materials.
TWP
- Trex Company
Trex Company, Inc. is the nation's largest
manufacturer of non-wood decking products. Its product is a
wood/plastic composite that offers an attractive appearance and the
workability of wood without wood's on-going maintenance requirements
and functional disadvantages. Trex is manufactured in a proprietary
process that combines waste wood fibers and reclaimed polyethylene and
is used primarily for residential and commercial decking. (Yahoo, 1-01)
UFPT
- UFP Technologies
UFP Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures
a broad range of high-performance cushion packaging, including
100%-recycled molded fiber packaging products for a variety of
industrial and consumer markets. The Company also designs and
manufactures specialty foam products and engineered specialty foam and
laminated products. Effective January 14, 2000, the Company purchased
Simco Industries, Inc., a full-service supplier of automotive trim
components using its patented Superformed process. (Yahoo, 6-01)
WLM - Wellman Inc.
Wellman is the country's leading recycler of
plastic and synthetic fibers obtained from reclaimed polyethylene
terephthalate (PET) soda bottles, film, and waste fiber. (from GMOG) WLM manufactures
and sells polyester products, including Fortrel brand polyester textile
fibers, polyester fibers made from recycled raw materials and
Perma-Clear PET packaging resins.
Metals
IMR - IMCO Recycling
IMCO owns and operates aluminum recycling
plants which recycle scrap materials for a fee and then returns the
material to its customers. IMR also buys scrap on the open market,
recycles and sells it. [Don't confuse these guys with IMPCO
Technologies, whose stock symbol is "IMCO"!] According to a 6-19-00
Reuters story, IMCO is the world's top aluminum and zinc recycler
(nearly 3 billion pounds of aluminum in 1999).
SCHN
-- Schnitzer Steel Ind.
SCHN collects, processes and recycles steel
scrap, and manufactures finished steel products through a steel scrap
recycling business and a technologically advanced steel mini-mill.
Residential Solid Waste
HIRI.pk - Hi-Rise
Recycling Systems
HIRI markets a proprietary automated system
designed to collect source-separated recyclables and other solid waste
in multi-story residential buildings.
Industrial
FASC.OB - First
American Scientific Corporation
First American uses exclusive kinetic
disintegration technology to break down various materials into powders
for use in producing various new products. Materials processed include
bio-solids from waste treatment plants, rubber from discarded tires,
gypsum from drywall, fiberglass from insulation, and glass from bottles
and jars. (by MBJ)
STHK.OB -- Startech
Environmental
Manufactures a high-tech plasma system which
neutralizes toxic waste (and normal waste), allowing reclamation of the
resulting materials for use in manufacturing or energy. (MBJ, 1-01)
Tires
GRN --
GreenMan
Technologies
Recycles tires. Yahoo says: "The tires it
collects are processed and sold as tire-derived fuel used in lieu of
coal by pulp and paper producers, cement kilns and electric utilities;
as a substitute for crushed stone in civil engineering applications; as
crumb rubber (rubber granules) used for playground and athletic
surfaces, running tracks, landscaping/groundcover applications and
bullet containment systems, or as heavy-duty roofing shingles used as a
replacement for wood shingles." Note that tires burned as fuel are
likely highly toxic. (MBJ, June 2004)
Other
ARCI.ob - Appliance
Recycling Centers of America
ARCI provides comprehensive services for
large-scale collection, resale and recycling of household appliances in
an environmentally-sound manner.
ITRO.ob - Itronics
Itronics Inc. is the world's only fully
integrated photochemical recycling company. It provides photochemical
waste collection services, recovers and refines silver from the
photochemicals, manufactures and blends liquid fertilizers - GOLD'n GRO
from the processed residual, and sells and distributes a line of liquid
fertilizers developed for specific applications, such as golf and lawn
turf maintenance programs, vegetables, wine grapes, citrus and
evergreens. The Vision is to become a multi-billion dollar corporation
by utilizing its unique and proprietary technologies to become the
world's leading recycler of used chemicals into the fertilizer and
mining markets. (from company website, 5-01) Note, a comany subsidiary
is also involved in mining operations. (MBJ 5-01)
KAI - Kadant
(Formerly Thermo Fibertek.) Kadant Inc.
operates in the pulp and papermaking equipment and systems industry and
the composite and fiber-based products industry. Through its pulp and
papermaking equipment and systems segment, the Company develops,
manufactures and markets a range of equipment and products for the
domestic and international papermaking and paper-recycling industries.
Kadant's stock-preparation systems and equipment are custom-engineered
systems and equipment for de-inking, screening, cleaning and refining
waste fiber to prepare it for entry into the paper machine during
production of recycled paper. Papermaking machine accessory equipment
includes doctoring systems and related consumables that clean
papermaking rolls to keep paper machines running efficiently and
profiling systems that control moisture, web curl and gloss during
paper production. (Yahoo, 1-04)
RS.V
- Resin Systems (traded on Canada: Vancouver exchange)
Makes Uniseal, a non-toxic coating made from
recycled tires, which can coat almost any kind of surface (asphalt,
wood, metal, cloth, styrofoam, more). From their website: "A zero
percent VOCs product eliminates the worry of exposing applicators or
other workers to toxic fumes, and also eliminates the worry of food and
water contamination by the coating. This lack of toxicity has led to
registration of UniSeal for casual food contact by the Food and Drug
Administration (US) and Agriculture Canada." (MBJ)
TTRIF.pk - Thermo Tech
Technologies
Thermo Tech Technologies Inc. is in the
business of waste conversion and waste management. The Company has
developed proprietary organic waste conversion facilities, known as
Thermo Master Plants, which employ the Company's proprietary
thermophilic organic waste fermentation technology. The Thermo Master
Plants are capable of converting raw organic waste, in the form of food
waste or municipal sludge, into a commercially saleable end product.
The Company markets, licenses, owns and operates Thermo Master Plants
as its primary business, and derives its primary revenues from these
activities. (Yahoo, 9-00)
Companies Not Included in this
Section
AA -- Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa)
Remembering this company's commercials on TV
from my childhood, I spent a long time digging through their website
trying to find any evidence of their recycling activities. I found next
to nothing. If these guys are really active in large-scale recycling,
they're certainly not telling anybody about it. (MBJ) Part II: My
friend Erin Rogers just sent me the following info: "There is an
organization called Neighbors
for Neighbors in Bastrop, Texas that is fighting lignite strip
mining and massive water pumping in Lee and Bastrop counties by Alcoa.
Alcoa uses the lignite to fuel a smelter in Milam county that is one of
the worst air polluters in Texas and is 'grandfathered' so that it does
not have to comply with Texas or national clean air laws." (9-99)
CENX -- Century Aluminum Company
No home page that I could find. Yahoo's profile
doesn't mention recycling. (MBJ)
CRTZ.PK - Creative Recycling Technologies
[Merged with Ingen in
March 2004.] Has developed a method for recycling used tires under
which the tires are broken down into carbon black and other oil
components using microwaves. The Company believes that the process will
enable it to dispose of used tires more economically than an existing
method and that the process should be patentable. (Company press
release, 4-97)
ECRE - Ecological Recycling
Company
Couldn't find any descriptive information about
them. (MBJ)
ENA.V - Envipco Automated Recycling
[In Jan. 2004 I noticed that their symbol is no
longer listed. It appears they're no longer publicly traded.] Envipco
is the world leader in the development of automated systems for
collecting empty beverage containers for recycling from the consumer,
and has obtained more than a dozen patents on its technologies
worldwide. (MBJ)
FIXC - Fix-Corp International
This plastics recycler seems to have
disappeared. Their symbol is no longer listed, and I can't find any
current information about them (not even a website).
FNCO - Funco
[The FNCO symbol is no longer traded. --MBJ,
9-25-00] FNCO provides interactive home entertainment through the
purchase and resale of new and used video games and related hardware
and accessory items through its Funco Land stores and mail order
operation. About half of its sales are from used merchandise.
KLU - Kaiser Aluminum Corp.
No mention of significant recycling activity on
their web page. Notorious forest clear-cutter MAXXAM owns 2/3 of
Kaiser, and was listed as one of the worst polluters in 1995 by the
Council on Economic Priorities. (MBJ)
KS - Kafus Environmental Industries
Kafus is principally engaged in the development
and commercialization of technology for the production of composite
wood products using solid waste materials such as wood, waste paper and
other recycled wood fibers. [As of 8-15-00, Kafus is in receivership.]
NARL - North American Recycling
Systems
Involved in incineration operations (widely
opposed by environmentalists for causing massive pollution). Its tire
recycling subsidiary is defunct. The parent company was sued because it
abandoned its tire dump. (MBJ, 2-98)
PCYL - Purecycle
"Pure Cycle is engaged in the privatization of
municipal water and waste water systems in Colorado and throughout the
United States. The Company seeks to use its portfolio of water rights
and water technologies to enhance the availability and quality of
municipally provided drinking water." (From the company's 10KSB Report)
It doesn't look like this company is really doing anything exciting
related to recycling.
PLTK - Plastic Recycling Inc.
Recycles CD-ROMs. (from Recycling
Obscure Materials, 6-98) 2015 S. Pennsylvania, Indianapolis, IN
46225. 317/780-6100 (Note, 6/00: Their symbol has been delisted. When I
called to inquire about that, the two different employees I spoke with
were unfamiliar with the term "publicly-traded".
RCAIE.OB - Recycling
Centers of America <http://recyclingcentersusa.com>
[In 2-01 I noticed that their symbol was
delisted and their website was down.] Involved in the collection,
recycling and re-sale of used oils, antifreeze and oil filters (MBJ)
RECY - Recycling Industries, Inc.
A metals recycler engaged in the collection and
processing of ferrous and non-ferrous metals for resale to domestic and
foreign steel producers and other metals producers. [In 4-99, I noticed
their symbol was no longer listed, and Yahoo's entry for them has
disappeared.]
RLM - Reynolds
Aluminum
Reynolds sold its recycling operations to Wise
Metals, which is not publicly traded. Then in 2000 in merged with Alcoa. (MBJ)
SVNG - Seventh Generation
[Company has gone private and is no longer
publicly traded.] Seventh Generation makes recycled paper products,
environmentally-friendly household cleaners, and other
environmentally-friendly products. (MBJ, 11-98)
TMXIQ.OB - Thermatrix, Inc.
[In April 2002, the German company Linde
acquired Thermatrix's stock. Thermatrix is no longer listed as a
separate company, and Linde doesn't appear to be traded in America.]
Thermatrix, Inc. develops, manufactures and sells industrial process
equipment for the destruction of volatile organic compounds and
hazardous air pollutants ("VOCs'').
THN - Thermo Remediation
[Divested in a reorganization in 1999/2000, and
no longer traded separately.] A subsidiary of Thermo Electron (TMO). Recycles
motor oil (largest recycler in Arizona), recycles soil, provides
nuclear-remediation and worker health and safety services to government
and industry clients, offers services in managing wastes from former
manufactured-gas plants and refineries, and is involved with hazardous
waste cleanup. (MBJ)
UK.V - UKT Recycling
Technologies (traded on Canada: Vancouver exchange)
Couldn't find any descriptive information about
them. (MBJ)
USPL.OB - United States Plastic Lumber
[I noticed in Dec. 2004 that their symbol
was no longer listed, and they don't mention any new symbol on tehir
website.] U.S. Plastic Lumber is the premiere manufacturer of
plastic lumber products, made exclusively or primarily from recycled
plastic. The company also provides industrial environmental services
(decontamination and recycling of soil, the decontamination and
dismantling of industrial facilities, on-site treatment, the capping
and closure of landfills and the development of beneficial reuse of
industrial wastes such as dredge materials. (from company's website,
4-00)
VZZ.AL - Vehicle Recycling
(traded on Canada: Alberta exchange)
Couldn't find any descriptive information about
them. (MBJ)
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