Close The Loop Celebrates 9 Years Of Offering Products With Recycled Content, Opens Store

After 9 years of offering recycled products online as a dot com business, Close the Loop, LLC will open its first retail store with a grand opening planned for May 2 from 10:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.

 

The location is on Rt 209 at the corner of Frable Road, near Gould's Farm Market in Brodheadsville.

 

"With the launch of our first retail store, we are better able to serve the public and our business customers and build the demand and acceptance of recycled products," said Rita Lacey, Close the Loop's managing member.

 

“We hope to encourage people to view our waste materials as a valuable resource. We can all be a part of the solution to help solve environmental problems by using recycled products that are more durable than wood; we don’t have to chop trees down for mulch ~ if we use alternative materials…rubber, glass, cocoa shells” added Lacey.

 

Within a 9 year period, Close the Loop has shipped more than 7 million pounds of rubber mulch and over 120,000 pounds of plastic fencing made locally by Waste Not Technologies in Saylorsburg, PA. Close the Loop has been selected as the only approved distributor for the plastic post & rail fencing in the world.

 

The plastic fencing is guaranteed to never rot and is made by recycling Polk township milk jugs and most recently from milk jugs collected from a children's competition in the Pleasant Valley Elementary School recycling contest.

 

For playground safety surfacing & horse footing, the rubber mulch is an ideal surface, does not decompose or give splinters like wood, has superior shock absorbency and does not freeze in cold weather, and can help reduce injuries associated with falls.

 

As landscape mulch, the rubber and glass work great to reduce maintenance and cost because they last much longer than wood.

 

“What’s nice to know is that when you purchase and use these produces, you are helping to solve an on-going environmental problem of 300 million waste tires, 30 million tons of plastic waste (only 7 percent recycled) and about 13 million tons of glass all generated annually in the U.S. I encourage everyone to shop locally & buy recycled to help build green manufacturing jobs right here in Pennsylvania," added Lacey.

 

For more information, visit the company website or call 570-629.8414.