United States | In order to reclaim post-industrial plastic materials for use in the company's building products, Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc (AERT) has opened a plastics recycling plant in Watts, Oklahoma. The new ‘state-of-the art’ facility, will retrofit the existing site, property where a large hog feed lot and finishing facility once operated, into a plant that will clean, process, analyze and reformulate polyethylene plastics.

Joe Brooks, AERT's Chief Executive Officer, received the Oklahoma Governor's Award for the company's major investment in the state's growing economy and its commitment to a lasting partnership with the State of Oklahoma. Mr Brooks will hand over his position Mr Morrison. The new facility will be designed to LEED standards and will be a national example of sustainable innovation and green reclamation.

‘The Native American community has lived on this land for hundreds of years and left only a small footprint,’ said Joe Brooks. ‘That's what this factory is built to do. Preserve what part of nature we have and reuse what we can for a greater good.’ In addition to providing A.E.R.T. with low-cost raw materials in an environmentally friendly, carbon-footprint-reducing manner, the plant will also create jobs for the community.

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