New Recycling is Real video celebrates recycling 100 percent of plastics collected at the NPE2024 show
The advocacy campaign video highlights the efforts of NPE’s recycling partners to ensure the NPE2024: The Plastics Show was a circular event
The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) has released a new video as part of the Recycling is Real advocacy campaign, highlighting the recycling efforts carried out at NPE2024: The Plastics Show. NPE2024 achieved its goal of repurposing 100 percent of the plastics it collected at the show. The video features NPE's recycling partners, Conair Group, Commercial Plastics Recycling, and WEIMA.
"Plastic recycling is very real, and NPE2024 attendees were able to see recycling taking place every day at NPE2024," says PLASTICS' president and CEO Matt Seaholm. "The collaboration with our recycling partners, WEIMA, Conair, and CPR demonstrates our industry's commitment to sustainability and innovation. Through our efforts to ensure NPE2024 was a circular event, we've proven that plastics recycling is not only achievable but feasible and economical."
The Recycling is Real campaign provides content to help elected officials and policymakers understand that recycling is a vital link of the sustainability and circularity chain, enabling them to make more well-informed decisions about recycling resources for their constituents.
"WEIMA knows that Recycling is Real — we do it every day," said WEIMA's CEO Madison Burt. "Putting that on full display at NPE2024, just like we have in years past, was a huge priority for our company. We took an all-hands-on-deck approach to making the Recycling Zone a fully immersive, museum-like experience for show-goers. Truly being able to see the recycling process in action proves that it's not hypothetical — it's a reality, and it happens every day all across the country."
Additional NPE key recycling data includes:
- 516,160 pounds of plastic, cardboard, and aluminum were recycled at NPE2024.
- An additional 118,565 pounds of plastic was recycled this year — a 29 percent increase compared to NPE2018.
- 105 exhibitors participated in the recycling program at NPE2024 — a 12.9 percent increase from NPE2018.
- 11,713 pounds of HD/LDPE film were collected at NPE2024 and recycled offsite.
- 3,700 pounds of difficult-to-recycle plastic from NPE2024 was donated to Helpertunity, a nonprofit that empowers elderly and disabled individuals. The organization repurposed the plastic scrap for senior citizens' art projects in local Orlando, Florida, nursing homes.
