Allan Gerlat, News Editor

March 6, 2012

1 Min Read
Recycling Company Sells Holdings to United Resource

International Recycling Group (IRG) LLC has sold its membership interests to United Resource Recovery Corp. (URRC) Inc.

A subsidiary of New York-based GreenSteel LLC said in a news release it sold its IRG membership interest to the Spartanburg, S.C.-based URRC for an undisclosed amount. Other terms weren’t available.

IRG aims for 100-percent usage of plastic scrap by separating all the recyclable plastic from the non-recyclable, and converting the latter into a reducing agent for the steel industry.

The partnership between IRG and URRC provides IRG with access to URRC’s proprietary UnPET food-grade polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling technology.  IRG currently is developing plants that make PolyCoke by sourcing plastic scrap that cannot be economically recycled by traditional means.

URRC recycles silver-bearing films in the U.S. and post-consumer PET for food-grade applications globally.

About the Author(s)

Allan Gerlat

News Editor, Waste360

Allan Gerlat joined the Waste360 staff in September 2011 as news editor. He was the editor of Waste & Recycling News for the first 16 years of its history, and under his guidance the publication won 27 national and regional awards.

Before Waste & Recycling News, Allan worked at another Crain Communications publication, Rubber & Plastics News, which covers rubber product manufacturing. He began with the publication as associate editor and eventually became managing editor, a position he held for nine years.

Allan is a graduate of Ohio University, where he earned a BS in journalism. He is based in Sagamore Hills, in northeast Ohio.

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