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residential-recycling

Helping you to expand your recyclable plastics collection

Creating a world without waste includes working together to develop recycling solutions for everyday plastic items.

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Brightmark is working to help expand recycling collections by offering solutions for plastics. This can include anything from assorted hard plastic items like laundry baskets and crates to flexible films like baggies and bubble wrap.

Program benefits

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Landfill Diversion

Brightmark can recycle all types of plastic, which helps divert plastic waste from landfills.
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Increase Consumer Recycling

Help residents in your community increase recycling rates of plastics used every day.
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Expand Recycling Collections

Expand residential recycling collections—specifically for plastics that are traditionally non-recyclable.
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ISCC PLUS Certification

Help increase the recycling of post-consumer plastic waste through the ISCC PLUS process.
To date we've recycled
pounds of plastic waste

How the program works

STEP 1

Plastics can be dropped off at a plastics collection community drop-off site.

 

 

Plastics Drop Off
STEP 2

The collected plastic is transported to the Brightmark Circularity Center in Ashley, Indiana.

 

 

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STEP 3

Brightmark turns the plastic waste into the building blocks for new, circular products, which have the potential to become items like yoga mats, car seats, or new packaging.

Children's Car Seat

Hard plastics we can recycle

Plastic Trash Cans
TRASH CANS
Make sure to remove metal handles beforehand
Plastic Crates
CRATES & TOTES
Make sure to remove metal handles beforehand
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OUTDOOR FURNITURE
Make sure to remove metal handles beforehand
Plastic Baby Bottle
BABY ITEMS
Like plastic bottles
Plastic Garden Pots
GARDEN POTS & BUCKETS
Make sure to remove metal handles beforehand
Plastic Edging
EDGING FOR LANDSCAPING

Flexible plastics we can recycle

Mailers
MAILERS
Straws
STRAWS
Grocery Bags
GROCERY BAGS
Bubble Wrap
BUBBLE WRAP
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STRETCH WRAP
Plastic Baggies
BAGGIES
Like Ziploc

Ready to get started? Fill out this form.

plastics@brightmark.com

              See how it works

              Brightmark’s Plastics Renewal® technology can recycle all types of plastic—including difficult-to-recycle plastic items that are used every day.

               

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