Multiplying Profits by Transforming Agricultural Films & Plastics Directly into High-value End Products
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Multiplying Profits by Transforming
Agricultural Films & Plastics
Directly into High-value End Products
Annual Plastics Production
300 Million tons
Annual Plastics Disposal
150 Million tons
Annual Plastics Recovery & Recycling
15 Million tons
With recycling based on sorting by grade, America is drowning
in plastic waste.
• US consumers generate 32 million+ tons of plastic waste annually (12-14% of MSW).
• Less than 9% of consumer waste plastic is recycled (only 2.8 million tons in 2012).
• Many more millions of tons of plastic are used in agricultural, automotive and other commercial activities. Less than 3% of this material is recycled.
JRA can recycle virtually every grade and type of plastic from any source regardless of contamination - almost 100% of all plastic waste.
Where is the money in
municipal solid waste?
PLASTICS
But what is the incentive to recover and recycle this material?
Chart credit: Cornell University Environmental Risk Analysis Program
Connecting the dots…Municipal Solid Waste plastics = Over 50% film and “off-spec” plastics
Farm waste plastics = Over 90% film and “off-spec” plastics
o Plastic films, EPS foam and other “off-spec” plasticsfrom MSW
o Plastic waste contaminated with other household, commercial, institutional or industrial wastes
o Silage and haylage bags, bale wrap, bunker silo cover,mulch film
o Nursery and greenhouse film, shrink wrap
o Pesticide containers
o Nursery pots, trays and flats
o Row covers, woven tarps, plastic sacks
o Bailing twine, drip tapes
Too dirty, too comingled, too contaminated, too wetToo costly to recover - Too costly to sort
Too costly to clean, dry and bale
INSUFFICIENT MARKET VALUE TO COVER COSTS
Dirty, comingled, contaminated,
wet plastics!
Nursery pots, trays, and flats
Pesticide containers
Row covers, woven tarps, plastic sacksSilage bags, bale wrap, bunker silo cover, mulch film, greenhouse film, shrink wrap
The problem
Insufficient market valueCommodity prices paid for plastic waste
do not support recycling efforts.
The answer – JET Recycling America, Inc.
JRA offers massively scalable systems for transforming mixed and dirty plastic waste directly into
permanently durable, high-value end-products!
Current disposition choices for agricultural plastic waste:
Bury it Burn it
Recycle it
Transform it:
Plastic to oil
CONVERT – Impressive technology, but limited profitability and still results in burning a non-renewable carbon resource.
RECYCLE – Middleman costs, costs of sorting to pure grade, and competition with low-cost virgin plastics reduce margins and the amount that buyers can pay for waste materials. Purity requirements of conventional recycling leave the great majority of plastic waste unused.
TRANSFORM – JRA’s unique capability to process mixed, dirty plastic waste, and directly manufacture high-value end-products generates the most profit of any recycling technology. Combining all plastic grades in manufactured products allows virtually all plastic waste to be used to generate maximum value.
XBURY or
BURN
TRANSFORM – with JRA
JRA’s unique capability to process mixed, dirty plastic waste, and directly manufacture high-value end-products generates the most profit of any recycling technology.
Combining all plastic grades in manufactured products allows virtually all plastic waste to be used to generate maximum value.
JRA can turn all of your dirty agricultural plastic wasteinto profitable, environmentally friendly end-products!
JRA Accepts ALL
We don’t just recycle – We upcycle!JRA transforms your single-use and other
discarded plastics into permanently durable, high-value products.
JRA accepts & uses all agricultural plastics
ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
Every ton of JRA plastic end-products produced:
• Saves one large tree and associated habitat from forest harvest.
• Stops incinerating or converting waste plastics and substantially reduces CO2 greenhouse gas emissions and sulfur dioxide air emissions.
• Permanently sequesters all the carbon and chemicals used to make the original plastic products, keeping these compounds out of the environment.
JRA transforms virtually all plastic waste (from all sources) into high-value end-products for consumer, commercial, institutional, agricultural, and municipal infrastructure applications. These products are permanently durable, rather than disposable or gone in a flash.
Use JRA and “Upcycle” rather than recycle!
JRA extruders create the precise combination of pressure, heat and process duration required to melt the highest melting point plastics without burning or crystallizing the lowest melting point materials. The result is a highly cohesive, moldable material which is fed into specialized profile or multi-dimensional molds to create an incredible variety of products.
SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Regardless of social or political goals, in today’s economy, recycling must be not just
environmentally sustainable, but economically sustainable as well.
Businesses and consumers should not have to pay an extra cost to recycle the plastic products they use.
The massive problem of plastic waste – 150 billion pounds per year – requires massively scalable processing and
production, and massive markets for recycled products.
Existing markets for products that can be made by JRA exceed $35 billion.New products made possible by JRA’s lower cost add billions more potential.
Click link below to see detailed comparisons between JRA market competitors:
http://jratechnology.com/images/competitors-cost-features-comparison-chart.pdf
JRA Product Markets
JRA End Products
A VARIETY OF FORMS FOR MANY USES!
JRA End Products
FORMED PRODUCTS:PALLETS & MORE
JRA End Products
PAVING GRID: WALKWAYS, DRIVEWAYS,
PADDOCKS, PENS
JRA End Products
FENCING AND ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE
JRA End Products
JRA KITS: GAZEBOS, FENCING, PATIOS, HOUSING & MORE
JRA Construction System kits require no measuring, sawing or nailing, and usually require no foundation.
JRA plastic lasts indefinitely even if buried or submerged.
BOTTOM LINEJRA operators will be able to
take all agricultural plastic waste and pay farmers more
for every pound.
JET Recycling America materials processing and manufacturing systems can recycle virutally all plastic waste into environmentally beneficial end-products that deliver more profit per pound.
How can agriculture solve its$5.87 billion per year plastic problem?
Support the development of a JRA operation in your region.
Contact Don Baird at 714-679-7438 – [email protected]
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