Blue Polymers hopes to add 60 'permanent local jobs' with new Buckeye recycling facility

Buckeye, Arizona (Release): Blue Polymers has announced that its second recycled plastics production facility will be located in Buckeye. The 162,000-square-foot facility is expected to create more than 60 permanent local jobs when it opens in the second half of 2025. This facility joins the previously announced Indianapolis location as part of Blue Polymers’ network of four regional recycled plastics production facilities.

Blue Polymers will specialize in processing polyethylene and polypropylene recycled products suitable for sustainable packaging and other applications requiring increased recycled content. Polyethylene, commonly found in milk jugs and laundry detergent containers, and polypropylene, used in consumer packaging like margarine tubs and yogurt containers, will be processed and formulated into high-quality, drop-in solutions for the packaging industry.

Republic Services, a JV partner in Blue Polymers, is concurrently developing a network of recycling sortation facilities called Polymer Centers. Each Republic Polymer Center will be linked with a Blue Polymers facility to promote plastics circularity and sustainable packaging. The Buckeye facility will process feedstock from Republic’s Las Vegas Polymer Center, operational since late 2023.