New plant slated for Johnstown

An Ontario company has chosen Johnstown to become the first North American site of a recycling operation that uses a unique technology to turn plastics into light diesel oil and natural gas.

Grant Lawson, president of BBL Energy Inc., said the company will take such “dirty” plastic waste as water bottles, food containers like margarine tubs, plastic bags, hospital waste, straws and industrial drums. This plastic is now plugging up landfills because it can’t be recycled.

The company’s same machines also can transform tires and used oil into energy, he said.

Lawson said his company is closing a deal to buy the Prescott Machine and Welding property at Johnstown. It plans to renovate the building to have the new operation up and running by the end of March.  Read the full story.