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Understanding Plastic Grades
Posted on January 27, 2017 | No CommentsAt American Recycling Company, we handle many grades of industrial, post-industrial, and pre-consumer plastics. At the time of publication, we also take stretch films, shrink wraps, clean agricultural film, PET […] -
American Recycling Now Accepting CRV
Posted on January 8, 2013 | No CommentsAs part of American Recycling’s expanded recycling program, we are now accepting CRV materials. In a bid to become Central California’s one-stop recycling solution, accepting materials like aluminum cans is […] -
Spotlight on Copper
Posted on December 18, 2012 | No CommentsCopper Copper is the best non-precious conductor of electricity. As such it is widely used in industry, for electrical distribution, electric motors and servos, generators, conductors of all sorts – […] -
New Focus on Metal Recycling
Posted on December 1, 2012 | No CommentsAmerican Recycling has recycled metal since the beginning, but our million dollar expansion in 2012 included in part several facility upgrades designed to specifically address metal recycling on a larger […] -
ISRI Releases New Plastics Specifications
Posted on September 27, 2011 | No CommentsNew Plastics Specifications to Modernize, Standardize and Streamline Plastics Buying and Selling. The new specifications were approved by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc.(ISRI) Board of Directors. ISRI’s plastic […] -
Newspaper Recycling (ONP: Old Newsprint)
Posted on September 4, 2011 | No CommentsONP Grades There are four grades of newspapers commonly recycled. According to the latest (2011) Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) Scrap Specifications Circular, these grades are defined as: (6) […] -
Mixed up about Mixed Paper Recycling?
Posted on August 12, 2011 | No CommentsIf so, you can hardly be blamed. Changes in market conditions and recycling technology have required changes to the definitions of several grades of waste paper, and the creation of […] -
Contamination in Paper Recycling
Posted on May 20, 2011 | No CommentsContamination in paper recycling is a serious issue, with negative effects ranging from the strictly financial, to the health and safety of industry workers. The rapid expansion of recycling programs […] -
Community Recycling Survey Results
Posted on March 13, 2011 | No CommentsThe American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) has performed a series of national surveys to measure the extent and track the growth of access by the public to community-level paper […] -
Paper Making and Recycling
Posted on March 9, 2011 | No CommentsOver the centuries, paper has been made from a wide variety of materials such as cotton, wheat straw, sugar cane waste, flax, bamboo, wood, linen rags, and hemp. Regardless of […]