Interview with Celeste Johnson founder of Obex, really more of a memorial service and farewell to Obex.
www.Obex.com

Obex was the 1st (and is still the only) company to know how to mix 2 thru 7 plastics, polystyrene foam & plastic bags and to create a nationally branded product line sold by some of the nation's most reputable retailers: The Home Depot, The Burpee Seed Catalog, The Flaghouse Catalogs, The Green Culture.

• Obex created a technology that was deemed by all the experts to be "impossible" with equipment that was almost as old as I am!
• Obex created a way to receive and recycle - on a regular basis - this vast array of plastics from as far away as the State of Washington, and as close as the Riverside School in Greenwich and the Cloonan School in Stamford.
• Obex created a product line, NovaWood® that looked and felt like weathered, seasoned cedar and sold for prices that were equal to or less than competitive products in similar applications (brick, wood, plastic and cement). NovaWood® was financially accessible to the average homeowner and gardener.
• Obex created special products designed and textured specifically to ease and improve the lives of the disabled.
• Obex believed in and lived the philosophy that 2 valuable American resources - human beings and plastic - both deserve a second chance at a new life in a form that's different than what was available before the existence of Obex.
• Obex created a technology that did not harm the environment with emissions or effluent.
• Obex created a flexible manufacturing floor and process to anticipate and accommodate marketplace changes to avoid being held hostage and/or handicapped by those inevitable changes.
• Obex received CT's 1st Best Recycler Award, the NovaWood® Compost Bin was chosen to be among the top 5 in America by the American Horticultural Society, and Organic Gardening Magazine cited the NovaWood® Raised Garden Kit as the "best" kit and design they had seen and tested.