March 19, 2007—The Plastics Environmental Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) recently announced the winners of the 2007 Plastics Recycling and Sustainability Awards, presented March 7 during SPE’s Global Plastics & Environmental Conference (GPEC) in Orlando, FL.
Through these awards, SPE’s Plastics Environmental Division recognizes corporations and other institutions that have demonstrated environmental leadership and excellence through significant achievements in a variety of environmentally responsible categories. The 2007 winners in the following categories include:
- New Technologies in Processes: GE Plastics of Mt. Vernon, IN, for their Valox iQ and Xenox iQ Resins;
- New Technologies in Materials: Cereplast, Inc., of Hawthorne, CA, for their proprietary bio-based resins;
- New Technologies in Renewables: InterfaceFABRIC of Grand Rapids, MI, for their Biobased Fabric Composting Project;
- Design for Sustainability: Battelle Memorial Institute and Ohio Soybean Council of Columbus, OH, and Advanced Image Resources of Alpharetta, GA, for their biobased resins and toners;
- Emerging Technologies: Cargill, Inc., of Wayzata, MN, for their Bio-based Polyols-BiOH;
- Enabling Technologies in Processes & Procedures: Argonne National Laboratory of Argonne, IL, along with the USCAR Vehicle Recycling Partnership, and the Plastics Division of the American Chemical Council, teamed together to develop End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) Recycle Technologies;
- Plastics Recycling: Los Angeles Fiber Company of Vernon, CA, for their recycling and recovery of Post Consumer Carpets (PCC);
- Plastics Recycling: Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies (AERT), Inc., of Springdale, AR, for their composite building materials from recycled polyethylene and wood; and
- Dan Eberhardt Memorial Environmental Stewardship: Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) of Dalton, GA, for their post-consumer carpet recycling.
For further details, visit the GPEC Environmental Awards Web site.
