Following loud community opposition, a North Bay plastics recycling startup announced Thursday it would be moving its equipment out of a Sonoma County business park “within weeks” and is likely to shift its operations out of California.
Resynergi has developed a method of breaking down hard-to-recycle items, such as plastic bags and yogurt containers, that often can’t be handled by most traditional recycling methods. But public notices alerting neighbors that the Rohnert Park plant could soon start recycling plastic touched off persistent protests by residents concerned the plant could subject them to harmful emissions, despite Resynergi’s assurances it would not.
“We’ll be pulling our equipment out of Rohnert Park,” said Brian Bauer, a co-founder and company president…