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Article: NRP recycling leftover auto-paint sludge.
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- February 5, 2001
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DETROIT -- The typical new car headed out to the open road leaves behind up to 12 pounds of paint sludge at the factory.
Now a new company is out to recycle that sludge and put it right alongside those cars on the road, as guardrail blocks.
National Recycled Plastics LLC opened in late 2000 with a $12 million investment and plans to hit more than $5 million in sales this year by collecting, drying and recycling leftover automotive paint. The Detroit company already has started shipping its extruded blocks to Ohio and Georgia and has won approval to sell the blocks to more than two dozen other states and the federal government.
"Every state in ...