Plastipak and Clean Tech Featured in Plastic Industry Association’s Recycling Is Real Campaign
September 10, 2025
Plymouth, MI — Plastipak and it’s recycling affiliate, Clean Tech, have announced their participation in the Plastic Industry Association’s (PLASTICS) latest advocacy campaign, Recycling Is Real, dedicated to illustrating and promoting how plastics are recycled – including the bottle-to-bottle recycling that happens every day at Plastipak and Clean Tech. Recycling Is Real provides content to help elected officials and policymakers understand that recycling is a vital link in the sustainability and circularity chain, enabling more well-informed decisions about recycling resources for their constituents.
The campaign features Plastipak and Clean Tech in a video that showcases how and where bottle-to-bottle recycling happens and introduces the dedicated employees who make it all possible at our facilities.
Together, Plastipak and Clean Tech are committed to sustainability, keeping plastics in the circular economy and out of the environment. Recycling plays a vital role in achieving this goal, and this video highlights how bottle-to-bottle recycling is not only real, but it’s happening every day at.
“Plastipak has been leading the way in bottle-to-bottle recycling for decades. When we started our recycling affiliate, Clean Tech, back in 1989, the goal was simple — keep plastics in the circular economy, out of landfills, and create good jobs in our communities. That’s why joining the Recycling Is Real campaign makes so much sense for us. It’s a chance to show that recycling isn’t just an idea, it’s real — and it’s happening every single day at Plastipak and Clean Tech.”
– Jack Pacente, Vice President of Global Sustainability
“Plastic recycling is very real, and it happens every single day across America,” said PLASTICS’ President and CEO Matt Seaholm. “The Recycling Is Real campaign allows both the public and lawmakers to see for themselves the extraordinary role recycling plays in the circular economy, making it undeniable that recycling is not only effective but is a feasible and economical way to achieve our shared sustainability goals.”
Click here to view the Recycling Is Real video featuring Plastipak and Clean Tech
About Plastipak Packaging, Inc.
Plastipak Packaging, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Plastipak Holdings, Inc., is a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-quality, rigid plastic containers for the food, beverage, and consumer products industries. Plastipak is also a leading recycler of rigid plastic packaging, producing food-grade post-consumer recycled resin for inclusion in new packaging. Plastipak operates more than 40 sites in the United States, South America and Europe, with a total of over 6,500 employees. Its customers include some of the world’s most respected and recognized consumer brands. Plastipak is also a leading innovator in the packaging industry, holding more than 420 United States patents for its state-of-the-art package designs and manufacturing processes. In addition, Plastipak licenses various packaging technologies around the world. Plastipak was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan. Additional information about Plastipak can be found at www.plastipak.com.
Statements in this press release concerning Plastipak’s intentions, expectations or predictions about future results or events are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements reflect management’s current expectations or beliefs, and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to vary from stated expectations, which variations could be material and adverse. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the time made, and the Company assumes no obligation to publicly update any such statements.
About Clean Tech
Clean Tech was founded in 1989 to reclaim the plastic in water containers and other post-consumer packaging. Clean Tech’s leaders knew that recycling would extend disposal capacity, save money in disposal costs and conserve natural resources. They saw further growth opportunity in the business’s potential for creating new jobs and providing a reliable, cost-effective resource for the manufacturing industry. This modern recycling center initiated the company’s entry into the environmental movement more than 30 years ago. Clean Tech recycled 2 billion bottles in 2007 alone at its Dundee, Michigan facility. It now recycles more than 10 billion bottles per year globally and continues to invest in recycling technology and operational improvements.
The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) supports the entire plastics supply chain, including Equipment Suppliers, Material Suppliers, Processors, and Recyclers, representing over one million workers in our $519 billion U.S. industry. PLASTICS advances the priorities of our members who are dedicated to investing in technologies that improve capabilities and advances in recycling and sustainability and providing essential products that allow for the protection and safety of our lives. Since 1937, PLASTICS has been working to make its members, and the eighth largest U.S. manufacturing industry, more globally competitive while supporting circularity through educational initiatives, industry-leading insights and events, convening opportunities and policy advocacy, including the largest plastics trade show in the Americas, NPE: The Plastics Show.