Hilex Poly to double recycling capacity

Hilex Poly, based in Hartsville, has announced plans to double recycling capacity at its North Vernon, Ind., facility.

Hilex broke ground for the recycling plant in the fourth quarter of 2004, and simultaneously initiated the revolutionary Bag-2-Bag closed loop recycling program.

In partnership with retail and grocery stores, Hilex provided an avenue for consumers to return used plastic bags and other household film waste for recycling through at-store collection bins. Once the bales of plastic arrive, they are shredded washed and compounded into recycled polyethylene pellets. Those post consumer pellets are part of Hilex’s reinvention of an existing manufacturing process, allowing old bags to be reused to make new bags.

Since Hilex Poly began this innovative Bag-2-Bag recycling program, the Company has surpassed a benchmark of placing 30,000 recycling bins in grocery stores across the country that help ensure more and more people have access to recycling every day.

Hilex Poly Co. operates nine manufacturing facilities across the United States. For more information, visit its Web site, http://www.hilexpoly.com.