PureCycle Invites Ironton and Denver Communities to Tour Recycling Facilities
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ORLANDO, FL / ACCESS Newswire / May 1, 2025 / PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:PCT), a U.S.-based company revolutionizing plastic recycling, today, announced its participation in The Association of Plastic Recyclers' (APR) Recycling in Action initiative. As part of Recycling in Action, plastic recyclers across the U.S. will offer an up-close look, during the month of May, at the journey of recyclables as they are sorted and transformed into new materials. PureCycle will be hosting guided tours of its Ironton, Ohio and Denver, Pennsylvania facilities for local community members.
The goal of these tours is to provide a behind the scenes look at how the recycling process works in communities around the country. These tours will be limited to members of the Ironton and Denver communities.
The schedule for the guided tours will be:
Denver, PA PreP facility May 20 - REGISTER HERE
8 a.m., 10 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. EDT
Ironton, OH Purification facility May 27 - REGISTER HERE
8 a.m., 10 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. EDT
"As recyclers, part of our job is to educate others about how it works and its benefits. PureCycle is excited to be a part of the Recycling in Action initiative and join other recycling facilities across the U.S. to show what happens to plastic waste collected from our communities," said PureCycle CEO Dustin Olson. "By giving members of the Ironton and Denver communities an opportunity to see the next step in the recycling process, we hope to show how making sustainable choices at home can help to advance the circular economy of plastics."
Visit Recycling in Action - Association of Plastic Recyclers to read more about the initiative and to see if there is a recycling tour available near you.
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PureCycle Contact
Christian Bruey
cbruey@purecycle.com
Investor Relations Contact
Eric DeNatale
edenatale@purecycle.com
About APR
Founded over 30 years ago by mechanical recyclers, the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) is an international non-profit and the only North American organization focused exclusively on improving recycling for plastics. APR's tools and resources help companies design packaging that can be recycled, support innovations that overcome existing recycling challenges, and encourage stable and reliable markets for post-consumer recycled content. Visit plasticsrecycling.org for more information.
About PureCycle Technologies
PureCycle Technologies LLC., a subsidiary of PureCycle Technologies, Inc., holds a global license for the only patented dissolution recycling technology, developed by The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), that is designed to transform polypropylene plastic waste (designated as #5 plastic) into a continuously renewable resource. The unique purification process removes color, odor, and other impurities from #5 plastic waste resulting in our PureFive™ resin that can be recycled and reused multiple times, changing our relationship with plastic. www.purecycle.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about the continued execution of PureCycle's business plan, the expected timing of commercial sales, and planned future updates. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or PureCycle's future financial or operating performance and may refer to projections and forecasts. Forward-looking statements are often identified by future or conditional words such as "plan," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "outlook," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "continue," "could," "may," "might," "possible," "potential," "predict," "should," "would" and other similar words and expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions), but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.
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PCT undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made in this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should any of the assumptions made prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events.
SOURCE: PureCycle Technologies
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