Our Aerosol Concept
We began with the idea that every part of an aerosol product should be recovered rather than wasted.
Working with the EPA, the Tennessee Department of Environment and companies like yours, we have turned this simple idea into a system that handles aerosols without generating any hazardous waste. Our unique combination of reclaim, recovery and recycling lets us work with every stage of an aerosol’s life.
Most of the cans that we recycle come from one of three sources:
- Pre-consumer manufacturing culls which are filled incorrectly or not ready for the marketplace for another reason.
- Commercial users of aerosols who need an efficient way to safely handle partially empty cans.
- Marketplace returns that often come directly from a retailer of the aerosol product.
We recycle or re-use each of the four main components of aerosol cans; the can itself, the plastic cap, the propellant and the product.
Recovered propellant is recycled or can be re-used by the manufacturer. The product in the aerosols is recovered, and returned to our customers for re-use or re-entry into the marketplace as a raw material feed stock. It can also be sent to other manufacturers who can make use of the product. Plastic caps are ground and recycled into other plastics parts. The cans are smelted into bars of steel or aluminum.
Total Aerosol Customization
Because of the variety of aerosol products in the market place today, we tailor each aerosol recovery process. How we receive, sort, re-stock, recover, re-use, and recycle aerosol products is uniquely tailored. We identify the beneficial properties of the by-products through a robust and rigorous analysis and evaluation. Once we have finished our assessments, we recycle these materials to a variety of sustainable applications and end markets. By eliminating aerosol hazardous waste, this makes us the most environmentally friendly process in the market today.