Oregon Business Association

OBA Member Commentary - EETC

January 31st, 2008

EETC - Good for Business, Good for Oregon
By Dennis Denton

Denton Plastics strongly supports OBA’s effort to pass the Environmental Enhancement Tax Credit in the 2008 session. We believe that it is possible to help the environment and promote economically sound business principles at the same time. The EETC is an outstanding opportunity to encourage both economic growth and sustainability.

Sustainability has been our business for 25 years. By taking plastics out of the waste stream and compounding them into new resins, we not only help the environment, but also offer quality material at a cost savings to manufacturers.

A full-service plastic recycler, Denton Plastics offers our customers a wide-range of opportunities. First, we bring in plastic scrap from all over, taking material that would otherwise be headed for the landfill and providing businesses an opportunity to recycle. Our high-quality reprocessed resins are designed to meet our customers’ specific needs to make everything from pipe to flower pots to kayaks. We also bring in railcars of virgin resin and give our customers the option of blending our reprocessed material with our virgin material, making it possible for them to use recycled content for more applications.

At Denton Plastics, we make it easy and affordable for companies to choose to “go green.”

We are excited about OBA’s efforts to pass the Enhanced Environmental Tax Credit because of what it means for companies like ours. At Denton Plastics, we are always looking for new feedstocks. There is a demand for our recycled resins and we are seeing that demand increase. In order to meet our customers’ needs, we want to go deeper into the waste stream. The EETC would provide us the opportunity to pursue these goals by making it more economically feasible.

Denton Plastics is a small, locally-owned business with about 40 employees and the desire to grow. We have already laid out plans to attain additional equipment to wash dirty material. The EETC would make this capital investment possible sooner. The sooner we can provide a new market for landfill-bound dirty plastics, the sooner we can pass along the environmental and economic benefits.

We would like to thank OBA and other supporters of the EETC for their commitment to helping companies like Denton Plastics expand Oregon’s opportunities to be sustainable.

Dennis Denton is President & Founder of Denton Plastics, Inc. and Chairman of the 2008 Global Plastics Environmental Conference.

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