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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.
1 posted on 06/20/2023 2:56:26 PM PDT by JeanLM
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To: JeanLM

Can you just buy from Amazon?


2 posted on 06/20/2023 3:03:12 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: JeanLM

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

(not you Jean, of course)


3 posted on 06/20/2023 3:09:02 PM PDT by BobL
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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.


4 posted on 06/20/2023 3:18:03 PM PDT by pelican001
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To: JeanLM

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.


5 posted on 06/20/2023 4:42:14 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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