Houston molder helping workers get back on their feet

via Plastics News

Texas Injection Molding LLC was spared from major damage from Hurricane Harvey. But the Houston company’s employees haven’t all been so lucky, and that includes CEO Jeff Applegate.

Applegate was overwhelmed with the way the Houston community has reacted to the disaster. Likewise, he is thankful for the support he’s been offered from plastics industry colleagues.

“It’s a good testament to the industry. When times get tough, people care and want to lend a hand,” he said.

Read the full story here: http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20170830/NEWS/170839985/houston-molder-helping-workers-get-back-on-their-feet

Happy Independence Day

Have a safe and happy 4th of July from all of us at Domino Plastics. Help keep America beautiful with sustainable waste management. We’ve been recycling plastic for 30 years. Contact us to sell and buy plastic materials. Joe@domplas.com. (631) 751-1995.

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Plastic For Sale – PP Now in Stock

Now in stock at Domino Plastics: Polypropylene regrind natural and orange tint mixed, 12 melt index, homopolymer, 10,000  pounds, post industrial and packaged in gaylord with lids and liners. Contact Joe@domplas.com, call (631) 751-1995, call/text (516) 972-5632. Click here to view more plastic for sale.

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A Message from Domino Plastics' CEO Michael Domino

By 2050 there will be more plastic garbage floating in the world’s ocean than fish swimming in them.

This shocking conclusion was recently published by The World Economic Forum.

I have learned during my thirty years in the plastics recycling business that the best solution is usually the simplest.

On land we burn trash to make electricity. My solution to the marine plastic pollution problem is the same, and not to reinvent the wheel just because the problem exists at sea as opposed to on land.

The ocean’s plastic pollution remediation process I propose consists of the following:

  1. Modify trawlers and factory fish ships to scoop plastic out of the ocean.
  2. Build a series of off shore, oil-rig style power plants, where feasible, to burn it and create electricity. Ships can be modified to be power plants and follow thefuel source too.
  3. Send the electricity to the mainland through trans-oceanic cables.
  4. Neutralize the ash making it suitable forany variety of products such as concrete, road surface material or use it as landfill to build up islands losing ground torising ocean levels – or create a new island somewhere all together like was done with Lower Manhattan, La Guardia Airport or Dubai. (New York’s LaGuardia is built on coal ash from power plants).

As seaweed and barnacles attach to the plastic it is beginning to sink and it also degrades and falls apart.  Much of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not visible and is floating 3-5 feet under the water’s surface. These polymer pollutants can be scooped up out of the water the way netters round up and catch large schools of eatable fish with mile long nets.

The urgent problem is that the sun and salt is rapidly breaking down floating plastic into small particles and it’s starting to float around the world. As this continues and increases it then is impossible to collect. The small particles are then ingested by birds, fish and mammals and many seabirds and turtles have plastic in their stomachs now.

Most plastics are not compatible with one another and there is more than enough mixed plastics on land now to make recycled plastic products such as lumber, pipes and nursery products. There is a glut of mixed plastic material resources already around the globe. It is entirely unrealistic to project that the difficult to sort and reprocess commingled plastic harvested from the Pacific is going to be sold and used, therefore it must be used to fuel power generating turbines.  Another viable option for marine plastic debris is converting it into fuel with plastic to fuel (PTF) technologies, which has been accomplished on land for many years. Thetechnology for both processes is readily available and currently commercially utilized and once again large factory ships could be retrofitted as on-site ocean going recycling plants. The ships could be powered by the fuel they recycle and sell off the surplus at profit to perpetually fund the operation.

It is time that “We the People” of the planet champion this cause that is literally threatening our very survival on Earth. Plastics for packaging and consumer products are two of the fastest growing industries in the world. Take a look in any store – just about everything is now individually packaged and wrapped for single use. It’s hard to find a product that does not contain plastics or is all plastic. Much of it is ending up in our oceans and only after we use it one time! Plastics make our life better but, at the same time, we must take responsibility for its environmentally safe disposal and recycling, post use.

As producers and consumers of disposable plastics products that are now choking our life-giving seas to death, we must act fast as a civilization to solve this problem. Every day we delay it gets horribly worse and harder to solve.  No person or plastics company can pass the buck any longer.

Sincerely,

Michael Domino

CEO Domino Plastics Company Inc.

www.Domplas.com

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In-Stock Plastic – Materials for Sale

Domino Deals – February 2016

All In-stock – Every Gaylord Quality Checked

  1. PETG,  RG, CL, NJ, CLOUDY CLEAR, MN211, 25,000 LB
  2. PETG,  RG, CL, NJ, CLEAR FOR CLEAR, 3000LB
  3. PETG,  REGRIND, B/T, IL, BLISTER, 105,000 LB
  4. ABS/PC, VIRGIN, TAN, IL, INJ, NON FR, 1600 LB
  5. ABS, VIRGIN,  MC, IL, GP INJ, NON FIL, NON FR, 40,000 LB
  6. PP, RG, MC, IL, 20 MI HOMO, 25885 LB
  7. PP, RG, MC, OH, 20MI HOMO,40,000 LB
  8. PP, RG, MC, NJ, 20MI COPO, MOSTLY WHITE, 15,000 LB
  9. PP, RG, MC, NJ , 12MI HOMO, 71,000 LB     
  10. PP, PURGE, MC, IL, 20MI HOMO, 6000 LB
  11. PP,  RG, MC, IL, 12MI COPO, 59,000 LB               
  12. PP, RG,  MC, IL,12MI COPO 80%PP/20%HD, 36,000 LB
  13. PP, RG, MC, IL, 5%EVA, 5MI HOMO, 16,000 LB
  14. PP, RG, NAT, NJ, 12mi homo, 10,000 LB                   .
  15. HDPE, RG, MC, IL, 18MI, 5302 LB
  16. HIPS,  RG, WH, IL, EXT, 8000 LB
  17. LDPE, REPRO,  BK, NJ, EXT, 40,000 LB
  18. ACRYLIC, RG, CL, IL, INJ, FROSTED, IMPACT, 15,500 LB
  19. ACRYLIC, RG, CL, IL,  EXT, 2000 LB
  20. PC/PBT,  RG,  BK, IL, INJ, 6000 LB
  21. PVC, RG, CL,  NJ,  80A, 7000 LB
  22. NYLON, RG, BK, IL, 66 UNFIL, NON FR, 4000 LB
  23. NYLON, REPRO, NAT, IL & TX, 6/66 EXTRUSION, 80,000 LB
  24. GPPS, RG, CL, IL, INJ, 3000 LB
  25. XENOY, RG, BK, IL, INJ, UNFIL,  6000 LB

Joe@domplas.com
631 751 1995
Domino Plastics Company Inc.
www.domplas.com

 

Domino Plastics – #1 Scrap Buyer

Domino_Plastics_Working.inddIn business for 30 years, Domino Plastics is USA’s #1 plastic scrap buyer offering full service industrial plastic recycling. We buy and sell all types and forms of uncontaminated pre-consumer plastic waste including HDPE, LDPE, PVC, ABS, PP, PC, Santoprene and more. Sell bales, rolls, sheets, purging, pellets, film, virgin, parts, obsolete materials, etc. Contact Joe@domplas.com for a price quotation. Our plastic prices are the best in the market. Offering prompt payments, reliable service and next day pickup for materials.

Plastic Scrap Buyer – #1 in the USA

we buy scrapSell post industrial plastic scrap for the best prices. Offering reliable service, fast payments and pickups at Domino Plasticsplastics buyers with 30 years in the plastic scrap recycling business.  Contact us today! (631) 751-1995. Email Joe@domplas.com

Robert Downey, Jr. & Limbitless Solutions Deliver Iron Man-Inspired Bionic Arm

Via Marvel

The folks at Microsoft OneNote, the Collective Project, and Limbitless Solutions have brought a piece of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to life with the creation of a fully-functional 3D printed bionic arm modeled on Iron Man’s own gauntlet–and one lucky kid met with Robert Downey, Jr. to receive the arm for himself.
Watch the video here: http://marvel.com/news/movies/24248/robert_downey_jr_limbitless_solutions_deliver_iron_man-inspired_bionic_arm#ixzz3UHpQiRbk