Clean Tech Incorporated

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.

It Has Become an Even Better Idea

This modern recycling center initiated the company’s entry into the environmental movement more than 20 years ago. Clean Tech recycled 2 billion bottles in 2007 alone at its Dundee, MI facility. It now recycles more than 3 billion bottles per year and continues to invest in recycling technology and operational improvements.

Our Core Values

Clean Tech is guided by a set of core values that drive the company. These core values have been the cornerstone of Clean Tech's business practices from the very beginning and continue to be the foundation of the company today.Clean Tech operates by meeting expectations for ethical conduct as well as financial goals — all without compromising its integrity. Indeed, we have built a global business culture based on honor, openness and inclusion.With suppliers and customers in agreement, Clean Tech works to meet high conservation standards while enhancing the health and safety of its employees and communities.

Capabilities

Plastics lend themselves to virtually limitless use and reuse due to their exceptional flexibility and durability. Clean Tech leveraged these features by configuring its manufacturing to reclaim bottles, reducing the amount of new plastics created. The PET and HDPE bales used by Clean Tech come from more than 350 recycling centers. 

Industry Recycling

The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) is the trade association for the PET plastic packaging industry. We promote the introduction and use of PET packaging; facilitate its recycling; and communicate the attributes of the PET container as an environmentally sustainable package. The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers represents companies who acquire, reprocess and sell the byproduct of more than 90% of the post-consumer plastic processing capacity in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Their membership includes numerous recycling companies, consumer product companies, equipment manufacturers and organizations committed to plastics recycling. They strongly advocate the recycling of all post-consumer plastic bottles. 

Responsibility: Sustainability in Practice

Clean Tech is an active, eco-conscious participant in protecting our planet’s natural resources and advancing initiatives to recycle rather than discard reusable materials. Heightened global awareness and interest in recycling has led to countless new applications for recycling plastic. In fact, informed citizens will tolerate nothing less than total engagement in environmental preservation. 

• Sustainable Processes - Clean Tech produces recycling material for the manufacturing of new bottles.

• Eco-Friendly Packaging - Clean Tech supplies material to many leading consumer packaged goods companies to make a wide range of new bottles.

• Reusing Recycled Materials - Clean Tech produces recycled plastic material that is used in both food grade and non-food grade bottles for consumer and industrial markets.

Initiatives: Moving Forward

Clean Tech's recycling processes focus on a bottle to bottle approach to recycling. High material production standards are in place to ensure that recycled materials can stand up to quality package demands to maintain product freshness.

Bottle to Bottle Approach to Recycling

The inherent strength, resilience and durability of PET and HDPE make these plastics a highly valuable material. Such recycled materials generated by Clean Tech provide the raw materials necessary to manufacture new food and nonfood containers.