Close the Loop collects recyclable waste materials and manufactures new products from them in the US. They organize community events to encourage recycling and purchasing recycled products. According to the EPA, large amounts of plastics, glass, and tires are generated as waste in the US each year, but recycling rates remain low. Close the Loop turns these materials into fencing, garden items, playground surfaces and more. They believe manufacturing recycled products in the US creates jobs and benefits the economy and environment long-term by using waste as a resource instead of trash.

1. Close the Loop, LLC
Be part of the solution
Presentation

2. Close the Loop
 What are the biggest waste problems out there,
and who is solving them?
 Made in USA
 Triple bottom line ~ People, Planet, Profit
 Organized free community events
GIVE & TAKE DAY and WEBSITE BUILDING workshops.

3. To truly “close the loop”,
we need to do 3 things:
1) Collect: recycle our waste
2) Manufacture: make something new out of it
3) Purchase: buy recycled

4. According to the EPA, the waste materials
generated in the US annually:
 Plastics - 30 million tons of plastic waste (nearly 60
billion pounds). Only 7% of plastic waste was recycled
in 2006
 Glass – 13.2 million tons of glass, about 22 % recycled
 Tires – 290 million tires in the US, 12 million in
Pennsylvania alone.

5. Plastic
Waste

6. …can be turned into Plastic Wood Fencing
…can be turned into Plastic Wood Fencing
compost bins, raised gardens, furniture, etc.

7. Recycling is voluntary, it is
NOT MANDATED by the
US Government

8. Recycled HDPE
Plastic Post & Rail
Fencing
Impact on
Environment
Vinyl Fencing ~ VOCs
Wooden Split-Rail in MFG &
destroys forests Disposal/Incinerating
PVC
High Low
Maintenance

9. Attributes & Close the Loop Wood Fencing Vinyl Fencing
Benefits: Recycled Plastic
Fencing
Durability/Lon
gevity
✔ X ✔
Low
Maintenance
✔ X ✔
Aesthetically
Pleasing
✔ ✔ ✔
Generates No
VOC’s
✔ ✔ X

10. Plastic Recycling in the USA 2008
Source: 2008 United States National Post-Consumer Plastics
Bottle Recycling Report

11. Glass Waste

12. …can be turned
into a sparkling
garden glass
walkway or used in
a gas fire pit

13. Tire piles litter our countryside
No known decomposition rate:

14. Tires can be turned into
playground surfacing, horse
footing, rubber timbers &
tiles…

15. • Manufacturing jobs have dropped
to their lowest level since 1941,
below 9% of workforce for the first
time.
• We believe we need to get back to
manufacturing in the USA, and
support these manufacturers by
purchasing and using their recycled
products.

16. Impacts of Buying
US Made Recycled Products
 Investing in American made products creates jobs
 Sets a good example & helps our economy
 Long-term economic and environmental benefits.
What better raw material to use than our waste
materials transformed into a valuable resource ~ in
nature there is no waste.

17. Leave less of a footprint on the earth…

18. www.closetheloop.com