Austria was the 17th country in Europe to implement a deposit-return scheme for single-use beverage containers, and aims for a return rate of at least 90% by 2027.

First Star Recycling in Omaha and the City of Lincoln each received $25,000 grants from the Foodservice Packaging Institute's Foam Recycling Coalition, to enable acceptance of take-out containers, egg cartons and more.

The Canadian province renewed funding for the program, which in 2026 will accept silage plastic and bale wrap in addition to baler twine and grain bags.

Ohio-based Alterra Energy has granted additional chemical recycling technology rights to Houston's Abundia Global Impact Group, augmenting a 2021 agreement between the two companies.   The most recent agreement gives Abundia, formerly known as Houston American Energy Corp., rights to use Alterra's process to develop and operate two more plastics recycling sites in the US, in addition to the four sites...

The bill seeks to classify chemical recycling as a manufacturing process rather than as waste incineration, to help speed infrastructure investment.

The reclaimer, owned by Taiwanese polyester giant Far Eastern New Century, shuttered its Poe Road site in Bowling Green but is keeping its RPET pellet operations open.

Despite gains for thermoforms and other materials, bottle recovery rates and RPET consumption eased from 2023 highs amid abundant imported resin, the annual report indicated.

A Mexican producer responsibility organization and a Canadian recycling startup are partnering to research the use of multi-material flexible packaging as a potential feedstock for chemical recycling technologies.  Aduro Clean Technologies, based in London, Ontario and ECOCE signed a multi-year phased framework collaboration agreement to evaluate Aduro's water-based Hydrochemolytic Technology (HCT) for recycling flexible and mixed-plastic packaging in Mexico. Using...

Using composition analysis and industry input, the Circular Plastics Taskforce and PROs in British Columbia and Quebec aim to provide technical and practical information about flexible packaging.

The state approved the plan from Circular Action Alliance, clearing the way for the law's implementation within the next six months.