Nextlife Recycling Announces Its Newest Alliance Partner, Wisconsin Film and Bag
Recycling alliance gains momentum in gaining new customers and attracting strategic alliance partners to address environmental issues.
Delray Beach, Florida (PRWEB) June 10, 2005 -- NextLife Recycling, the recycling alliance formed by industry leaders and manufacturers of disposable plastic film products, such as stretch wrap and grocery bags, has announced that it has added Wisconsin Film and Bag (WIFB) of Shawano, Wis., as its newest alliance partner.
WIFB joins other leading manufacturers of disposable packaging products such as Sigma Stretch Film, Vanguard Plastics, and Advance Polybag in recognizing NextLife as the best resource and alternative to recycling plastic film waste. The NextLife Recycling Alliance provides plastic film waste generators with a long-term, consistent market for their film waste with unique benefits including a guaranteed market for the material, fixed floor, open ceiling pricing" to alleviate market and price risk from recyclers, and the convenience and economic benefit of loading multiple types of recyclables on a single trailer.
The objective of the NextLife Recycling Alliance is to recycle, versus dispose of, used stretch film, grocery bags and other recyclable materials from the marketplace. The program aims to recover millions of pounds of stretch film and plastic bags each year, which may have otherwise filled our landfills. The Alliance, through its recycling partners such as Sun Valley Worldwide and Mountain Valley Recycling, convert plastic films into recycle grade resins which are sold into a diverse market of manufacturers to produce new durable products using the recycled content. This approach provides waste generators with a long-term, consistent market for their recyclables by reducing adverse market dynamics such as seasonality and product demand fluctuations, which are often associated with a single-product manufacturer, such as composite lumber.
Jack Riopelle, President of Wisconsin Film and Bag and the incoming President of the Film and Bag Federation, the voice of the film and bag industry, explains the significance the NextLife Recycling Alliance will have on the future of film and bag recycling. I have a keen understanding of the impact of film and bags on our environment. The goal of WIFB in joining NextLife is to promote the NextLife Recycling solution so that our industry can experience similar diversion rates to those of cardboard and metals. Until now, the market for recovered films has been largely limited to plastic lumber and export markets. This has served the industry well; however, long-term we will need new and diversified markets in order to achieve higher recycling rates. The diversified market approach of NextLife provides the best opportunity for our industry to expand its recovery rates."
Daniel Schrager, President of Sun Valley Worldwide, the founding company of NextLife Recycling, discusses the impact of WIFBs addition to the NextLife alliance. We are enthusiastic about Wisconsin Film & Bag joining our Alliance. We continue to attract the industrys leaders to our Alliance. This confirms the importance of the film and bag industries to identify new, alternative recycling solutions for their industries. We are confident that new technology, superior resin quality, and our proven, diversified market approach to film and bag recycling is the best long-term solution. We are currently working with other manufacturers of disposable plastic film products and expect that this trend will continue."
For information regarding the program, visit www.nextlife-recyle.com or call 1-877-NXTLIFE.
About NextLife Recycling
NextLife is a recycling alliance that was formed by industry leaders and manufacturers of disposable plastic film products such as stretch wrap and grocery bags. Recognizing the impact of their products on the environment, these organizations helped form NextLife to provide waste generators with a simple, profitable recycling solution. (www.nextlife-recycle.com)
About Wisconsin Film and Bag, Inc.
Based in Shawano, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Film & Bag is a manufacturer of custom manufactured polyethylene film and bags. WIFB utilizes business practices that are both environmentally friendly and economically sound. Examples include the internal pelletization of production waste, the purchase and use of post-industrial films from selected manufacturers and the practice of source reduction in all aspects of our production process. WIFB has been producing polyethylene bags and films since 1970. (www.wifb.com)
About Sun Valley Worldwide, Inc.
Sun Valley Worldwide, Inc. is a full service recycling and environmental company providing comprehensive services on a national and international basis. Our recycling divisions specialize in the recycling of plastics, paper, metal, and textile waste materials. Sun Valleys subsidiary, Mountain Valley Recycling, has plastic recycling facilities in Tennessee and Michigan. Mountain Valley recycles rigid plastics and converts recovered films into recycle grade resins (www.sunvalleyworldwide.com; www.mvrecycling.com).
For media inquiries, contact:
For NextLife Recycling
Jeffrey Silver, Business Development
1-877-NXTLIFE (1-877-968-5433)
For Sun Valley Worldwide, Inc.
Daniel Schrager, President
561-330-8520 x202
For Wisconsin Film & Bag
Jack Riopelle, President
715-524-2565 x123
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