NJ recycle Law

Green Group Consulting ^ | 6/20/23 | David Nix

[JeanLM]

The following products will require 10% or greater PCR content as of January 1, 2024 in the state of New Jersey: - Rigid Plastic Containers - Plastic Beverage Containers - Plastic Carryout Bags - Plastic Trash Bags

[JeanLM]

PCR stands for Post Consumer Recycle. Given that the current PCR is about 8% and limited to PET bottles, this law is impossible to meet. There isn't enough post consumer material to support this, and the systems don't exist to provide it by January 1 2024; or ever really.

[Dr. Sivana]

Can you just buy from Amazon?

[BobL]

It never stops with Leftists - LEARN THAT, before you sit out elections to ‘teach the GOP a lesson’.

(not you Jean, of course)

[pelican001]

You can put all the recycle you want to in plastic lumber, but you can’t put 10% into the PE film resin used to make kitchen garbage bags and other thin film applications. If you try to add recycle, you will end up with “gels” in the film (which eventually become holes in the bags), and/or lead to continual shutdowns of the film blowing lines.

God save us here in NJ from Gov. Murphey and the rest of the liberal idiots.

[monkeyshine]

Yup, mainly just PET - the hard plastic that emulates glass. Coca Cola claims they are now all post consumer plastic and stopped making Sprite in green bottles so they can stay clear and be recycled.

The typical and more common plastic bottles, and squeezable bottles, are made from HDPE (and closures, sprayers, pumps are made from Polypropylene) and can’t contain a lot of post consumer plastic - at least not yet. They won’t hold up. Some tubes are hybrid multi-layer plastics are sometimes made with metal layers inside, or various different layers of plastic. Toothepaste tubes are like that.

Plastic bags can be re-usable. A lot of the shopping bags that look woven are actually made from plastic. In this covid world a lot of people want the thin plastic bags to bag their vegetables. Some bag their meats because they leak. This law is not practical or reasonable - and if they force all consumer products to use PET then expect higher costs.