As we are nearing the end of the month- please take note of our specials so you may take advantage of the low price while you can! If the order is placed by 5pm July, 30th- the sale price will be honored.
Thanks to all who have ordered so far! We appreciate the business!
We have been getting a plethera of calls and inquiries on retail sales.
We sell to anyone and everyone, no matter how big or small the sale.
Our customers pay the shipping, so if you want to order a sheet and have it shipped UPS, or order 100 sheets and have it shipped freight truck, we will be more than happy to assist you in your plastic needs no matter the size of the order.
Call Joni in the office today to get pricing and ship rates for your order. We appreciate all customers, big and small and are ready to partner with you!
U.K. beats goal in EPS recycling
Over 5,500 tons of expanded polystyrene (EPS) was recycled in the U.K. in 2009, according to the EPS Group of the British Plastics Federation. That volume accounts for 33 percent of the total EPS manufactured in the United Kingdom last year, and easily beats the government’s recycling target of 25.5 percent by 2010. The numbers are more impressive, considering many local authorities in the U.K. do not recycle EPS. The material is instead collected and processed through separate household and business recycling schemes.
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Our dogs here at Sandhill think they are worked FAR TOO HARD!
We’ll let you decide if you think they are over worked and under paid! 
Plastic bags lose ground in OR, NC
The potential single-use plastic bag ban in California (established under Assembly Bill 1998) may be getting the lion’s share of press coverage, but other states and communities are debating how to handle plastic bags as well.
In the Pacific Northwest, a bi-partisan bill is being crafted by two state senators, who are seeking to ban plastic bags and charge a nickel for every paper bag distributed in the Beaver State. Legislation, which could be introduced in the 2011 session, has the support of a mix of urban and rural legislators, led by Democratic Senator Mark Hass, from the Portland suburb of Beaverton, and Senator Jason Atkinson, a Republican from the rural Southern Oregon community of Central Point.
The two senators introduced Senate Bill 1009 during the legislature’s 2010 short session, which would have prohibited all retail establishments from distributing to customers plastic bags (as checkout bags) less than 2.25 mils thick, and levied a five-cent per-bag fee on all kraft paper bags distributed.
Not content to wait for state action, Portland Mayor Sam Adams will release a draft ordinance Friday that looks to ban plastic bags in Oregon’s largest city. Many grocery and retail outlets in the Portland metro area currently offer voluntary bag recycling programs, but pro-ban advocates have chided recycling as “ineffective” and “expensive.” Mayor Adams had previously explored regulating plastic bags in the city, but never formally introduced an ordinance, citing concerns over the impact on Portland’s economy.
Haas hopes that his bill is able to stave off a patchwork of local laws banning the sacks, and grocers agree on that point. “There’s unrest with how slowly the wheels of the Legislature are turning,” Joe Gilliam, president of the Northwest Grocery Association, told The Oregonian.
Elsewhere around the country, North Carolina has continued its gradual phase-out of plastic bags, moving to ban them in Currituck, Dare and Hyde counties. The move is an expansion of a law passed last year (Senate Bill 1018), which banned the distribution of plastic bags at stores with more than five stores in the state, or stores greater than 5,000 square feet in size. In their place, retailers must now offer reusable sacks or paper bags with at least 40-percent recycled content.
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Economy…
Are you seeing signs at your company that the economy is turning around?
1. Yes, jobs and benefits are being reinstated
2. Things improving slowly
3. Things remain uncertain
4. Things are getting worse
This poll was posted in Plastics Exchange Magazine June 28, 2010
We hope you are doing well with your business and continue to grow and prosper for 2010!
If you are ordering a color or white plastic sheeting or rolls and it will be outside in the elements or in the sun, we strongly suggest adding UV inhibitor to protect the sheet.
UV inhibitor not only protects the color, but helps protect the composition of the sheets, preventing the sheet from breaking down and cracking.
Black is the only color that has it included because of the carbon properties it has in the recycled products we use. You will need not add it.
White and all other colors need to have it added if you want the added protection from discoloration.
(all products have the inhibitor completely through the product, it’s not just a coating on top that will wear off)
We always are looking to help out those of you with a particular color in mind for your sheeting and roll needs!
Minimum order of 2000 lbs (see sizes page for weights on sheets)
Just send us a color swatch from your local paint store, we will match the color and viola, your plastic sheeting is on it’s way to becoming the color of your dreams!
Email or call Joni for more details and pricing.
Lick Creek Enterprises, located in Birmingham Iowa, takes the CUSTOMER of the MONTH for July!
Jim, the owner, has been a very dedicated and faithful customer for the last 5 years.
We are happy to assist him in the special sizes he needs for his operation, making hunting blinds and deer feeders!
We look forward to the continued partnership we have, thanks for the business Jim! Have a terrific July!
Resin production up versus 2009
Domestic resin production is up 7.4 percent, to 24.8 billion pounds, for the first four months of 2010, compared with the same period last year. Production for April 2010 (the most recent data available) was largely flat compared to the same month in 2009, but did manage a slight increase of 0.1 percent, to 6.2 billion pounds. Sales and captive use of plastic resins for the first four months of the year largely kept pace at 24.3 billion pounds — a 5.8 percent increase over the same period in 2009.
The American Chemistry Council, which tracks the data, releases resin production reports monthly through its website.
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