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To: Steady_on who wrote (24795)	5/22/2012 2:17:44 PM
From: PaperProphet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53574

Alright. Give your assumptions to where all of this free HDPE, LDPE and PP is supposed to originate and back it up with whatever facts you can find. Telling me it's not tenable doesn't mean you have the means to debunk it. You believe Mr. Bordynuik can bypass the scrap plastic market or that the market for plastic doesn't apply...now back it up.

To: Steady_on who wrote (24795)	5/22/2012 2:22:12 PM
From: PaperProphet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53574

And keep in mind that, although 92% of plastic is thrown into landfills, people aren't rushing to the landfills in droves to get those PET and HDPE bottles to recycle to get rich. Might you suspect that it's not worth the time to pick up those bottles at $700/ton?? After all, you only have to collect about 20,000 empty 1-gallon milk jugs and you'll have a cool $700.

To: Steady_on who wrote (24795)	5/23/2012 9:29:44 AM
From: Qgent	Respond to of 53574

I think your confusing two very different meanings. The fact that 92% of all plastic produced is not recycled doesn't mean that you should lump that 92% into the not recyclable category that JBI is allowed to process. How much plastic produced is truly not recyclable, and not just finding it's way into landfills from people and corporations to lazy or cheap to sort and recycle, or from MRF's not separating them because there's simply no market for them? I'm willing to bet the percentage of truly not recyclable plastic making it's way into landfills is ridiculously lower than 92%. Most plastics produced are recyclable, outside of PVC and a few others that are probably useless to JBI's process. Only 27% of plastic water bottles are recycled, this doesn't mean the remaining 73% of water bottles are not recyclable. Earth 911 claims that only 27 percent of plastic water bottles in the United States are recycled each year. blog.allgreenrecycling.com "According to the EPA that is 92% of all plastics produced are not recycled" "The DEC permits specify that the plastics used by JBI are not recyclable plastics. "