Christmas Meal

Our annual Holiday meal will be on Tuesday evening for graveyard and Wednesday for Day & Swing.

Please send me pictures to share.

Holiday Schedule

Merry Christmas to all of you!

The latest information on our holiday production schedule is off Thursday (12/23) and Friday (12/24). We will also be off the next Friday (12/31). It will be decided later if we will be off Thursday (12/30) at a later time. It will depend on customer's need.

I hope all of you have a safe and wonderful holiday with your family and friends. If you have pictures of your festivities that you would like to share with your work family, please email them to me.

Sharon

I'm taking over...

As you can see, I am now adding to our employee blog. If you have things you would like to add, let me know.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends. We had a great Chinese Thanksgiving meal. Click "VIEW ALL" to see pictures. If you have pictures from swing or grave, please send them to me to add.

Sharon

Agri-Plas

For those of you that didn't get a chance to watch the DVD brought in by Agri-Plas at the Open House, I've found the clip on the OPB website. You can watch it here. It's pretty interesting.

R&D Plastics Recycling Program Update

R&D Plastics has taken the next step with our recycling program. We are diverting 65,000 Lbs (per year) of scrap material that normally was sent to a landfill. We have a new arrangement with Agri-Plas in Brooks, Oregon. Agri-Plas is taking all of our mixed plastic including purge and floor sweepings. In a March 16 press release, Agri-Plas said it is taking discarded and unwanted plastic from landfills or is abandoned, burned, or buried on Northwest farms and nurseries and is converting it back into synthetic crude oil. Plastic products include dirty agricultural film, greenhouse cover, mixed nursery and jug material, prepackaged food containers and lids, and other low- or zero-value plastics too dirty to economically bring to a higher value through normal recycling efforts. Agri-Plas recently delivered its first full tanker (8,200 gallons) of oil to a refinery in Tacoma, Wash., which translates to a final delivery of 196 barrels of oil.

Thank You!

I would like to thank everyone who helped collect pop can tabs at R&D Plastics. These tabs were donated to Visitation School in Forest Grove who intern gave them to the Ronald McDonald House. The Ronald McDonald house recycles the tabs and uses the money to provide long term housing to parents of children with extended hospital stays. Visitation collected almost 70 Lbs of tabs. Remember to save your tabs for next year.

Thank You All,

Tino

Very Funny!!!!

Someone has way too much time during the shift!
Safety Note: Do NOT ride the forklift on a pallet.
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President's Day Holiday

This is a reminder that President's Day is one of R&D Plastics' paid holidays. President's Day is observed on Monday, February 15th this year so enjoy your 3 day Valentine's weekend. ♥