SAN DIEGO - Planet Polymer Technologies Inc. of San Diego will begin marketing a new fiber-filled polypropylene blend with recycled content this month. Becky Petcavich, a spokeswoman for the firm, said Planet's EnviroPlastic-RCF resin is aimed at helping processors comply with state recycled-content laws.
The product will be available in blends of 5-25 percent recycled PP, Petcavich said. The materials, which will sell for about $1 per pound, will be available in grades for injection and blow molding and sheet extrusion.
Petcavich said Planet also is supplying a photodegradable resin to make shipping bags and pouches for DHL Worldwide Express Inc.
The resin, called EnviroPlastic-U, will decompose when exposed to light for several months, then biodegrade. DHL, a major overnight freight shipper, will use the bags to protect parcels and envelopes in its Far East operations.
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Mark A. Sofman has been named program manager for the PolyUrethanes Recycle and Recovery Council, a division of the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. of Washington. Sofman joins PURRC from Hoechst Celanese Corp., where he was a corporate recycling associate. Sofman will oversee PURRC programs to evaluate and promote viable technologies for recycling and recovering polyurethane rigid and flexible foam and post-consumer scrap.