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330 4 minutes read Photo credit: Rachel Wolford Erie, Penn., is a Rust Belt city typified by the flight of industry over the past few decades. The plight of this area has left the door open to the opportunism of “green” industry and it is currently being courted by International Recycling Group. IRG touts “a landfill-free solution to post-use plastic,” and claims to be bringing the largest plastics sorting facility in the world to Erie where they guarantee no plastic will be destined for landfills. IRG flashes advanced sorting mechanisms like lasers as its chic, technology-driven solution to the global plastics crisis. This operation is expected to process 50 tractor trailers’ worth of plastic per day sourced from within a 750-mile radius of Erie. Recycled material would be processed into flakes and either sold to manufacturers such as Erie’s Plastek Group for plastic molds or to steel manufacturers as a substitute for coke in the blast furnaces of the steel produc

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