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Pennsylvania

DeminPennswoods

(16,303 posts) Wed Aug 19, 2020, 06:45 PM Aug 2020

Green economy set to come to Erie

Link: https://www.timesonline.com/story/business/2020/08/19/100-million-recycling-plant-planned-erie/5611617002/

Erie Insurance made a significant investment in an Erie-based opportunity zone that has helped to land a prospective plastic sorting facility. The plant intends to take all types of plastic and sell them to a Canadian steel manufacturer as a replacement for coke in the steel making process. There steel plant will have the proper controls and temperatures to burn the plastic so it does not cause pollution.