First Star Recycling

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♻️🪵 Curious how hard-to-recycle plastics are turned into usable building products?

Join us Thursday, May 14 for a behind-the-scenes Recycling in Action tour at First Star Recycling and learn how ReClaim™ plastic lumber is manufactured.

Perfect for sustainability advocates, contractors, lumber yards, distributors, landscape suppliers, and anyone interested in the circular economy.

The Association of Plastic Recyclers Keep Omaha Beautiful, Inc. Solutions Plastic Lumber

What if hard-to-recycle plastics could become a marketable building product instead of landfill waste? ♻️

Join us May 14, 1:00–2:30 PM at First Star Recycling and the home of Solutions Plastic Lumber to see Recycling In Action, where recycling is sorted and sold and the orange bags filled with hard-to-recycle plastics are manufactured into ReClaim™ plastic lumber.

The tour is filling up so don't delay!
Register here: https://www.firststarrecycling.com/tour-schedule

***We are currently looking for retailers, distributors, and wholesale partners interested in carrying sustainable plastic lumber products. If you work for a lumber yard, landscape supply company, building materials supplier, hardware retailer, synthetic turf company, or other business interested in sustainable products, we’d love to connect with you. Send a PM and we'll schedule a private tour.

The Association of Plastic Recyclers

Thanks to everyone who joined us for yesterday’s Recycling in Action tour at First Star Recycling! ♻️ If you missed the tour, our next tour is scheduled for May 14, 1-2:30pm and you can schedule at www.firststarrecycling.com/tour-schedule

We were excited to welcome the media for a behind-the-scenes look at how recycling really works—from single-stream sorting to selling to markets to transforming hard-to-recycle plastics into ReClaim™ plastic lumber on-site.

Check out the interview and see how innovation, education, and landfill diversion are helping build a more circular economy right here in Nebraska.

The Association of Plastic Recyclers Keep Omaha Beautiful, Inc. Keep Nebraska Beautiful

Nebraska's largest recycling facility in Omaha is offering free public tours in May to encourage recycling First Star Recycling is offering free public tours in May to show Omaha neighbors how recyclable materials are sorted and processed at its facility near 102nd and I streets.

Last call to join the public RECYCLING TOUR TOMORROW, May 6!

Don’t miss your chance to see at First Star Recycling. ♻️

Reserve your spot: https://www.firststarrecycling.com/tour-schedule

🗓 May 6 Tour
🕘 9:00 – 10:30 AM
📍 10330 I Street, Omaha

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how materials move through one of the largest MRFs in the Heartland—from single-stream recycling to our innovative orange bag–to–plastic lumber operation. Plus, you’ll leave with a parting gift made from ReClaim™ lumber!

The Association of Plastic Recyclers Solutions Plastic Lumber Keep Omaha Beautiful, Inc.