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  • At 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 […]

    Understanding Plastic Grades

    At 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 […]

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  • As 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 […]

    American Recycling Now Accepting CRV

    As 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 […]

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  • Copper 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 – […]

    Spotlight on Copper

    Copper 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 – […]

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  • American 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 […]

    New Focus on Metal Recycling

    American 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 […]

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  • New 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 […]

    ISRI Releases New Plastics Specifications

    New 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 […]

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  • ONP 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) […]

    Newspaper Recycling (ONP: Old Newsprint)

    ONP 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) […]

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  • If 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 […]

    Mixed up about Mixed Paper Recycling?

    If 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 […]

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  • Contamination 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 […]

    Contamination in Paper Recycling

    Contamination 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 […]

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  • The 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 […]

    Community Recycling Survey Results

    The 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 […]

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  • Over 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 […]

    Paper Making and Recycling

    Over 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 […]

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