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Plastic is not a dirty word, and polymers can be green
There is a
lot of negative publicity surrounding "plastic" at the
present time. Think about supermarket plastic bags, plastic
waste in landfill that will last 1000's of years and also
there is the
enormous stew of rubbish, consisting of 80 percent
plastics, weighing in at around 3.5 million tons according
to
oceanographers - which floats in the sea in an area where few people ever
travel, in a no-man's land between San Francisco and Hawaii.
It doesn't sound good for the future of plastics long term does it?
But hold on a
minute, think about some of the good things that plastics or
more accurately, polymers can offer us. Think about the use
of polymers in vehicle manufacture, which are used to make vehicles
lighter and more efficient, think about the use of polymers
in place of timber and helping to reduce de-forestation. Then
think about the fact that a majority of polymers can be
easily recycled rather than sending them to landfill and
polymers are not quite as bad as they are being made out to
be. Maybe it's not the fault of the designers, engineers and
manufacturers for using polymers in their products and
packaging, but more likely the fault lies with the rest of
us for not recycling them properly when we
have finished with them. It is the responsibility of all of
us to recycle more, both now and even more so in the future.
Fahr Recycling Policy
Fahr
Industries has been recycling 99% of all it's HDPE waste
material and off cuts from the very formation of the company
and it is our policy to continue to recycle as much of our
waste materials as possible in the future what ever they
are.
Send your old and/or damaged Fahr HDPE panels back to us and we
will recycle them for you - FREE OF CHARGE
To help you do your bit for the environment, we are
taking the initiative and offering you a service where you
can send your old and/or damaged Fahr HDPE panels back to
our factory and we will ensure that the HDPE is also
recycled FREE OF CHARGE. All we ask is that these panels
were originally supplied Fahr and that you send them back to
us stripped down to the bare panel, so all the fixings and
any non-HDPE components have been removed.
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