In This Issue:

1 | Is this the year Massachusetts settles bottle bill battle?

The fight over the future of Massachusetts' bottle bill is raging once again, and it has a few new wrinkles this time around.

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2 | European plastics reclaimers look to PET trays as new market

A key European recycling industry group is developing guidelines to help nurture the recovery of a new recyclable.

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3 | PetroChem Wire: Recycled PP prices mixed in April

CoPP pellet prices were up in April versus March with a wider price spread of 60-65 cents per pound FOB East Coast seen later in the month. That compares with March pricing of 58-60 cents per pound. Demand for pellets was steady.

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4 | Wide world of plastics recycling

We go from Europe to Russia to outer space in our look at recent developments in plastic recycling outside of North America.

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5 | NewsBits

California is one step closer to a statewide ban on single-use plastic sacks. We bag up the details in NewsBits.

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6 | Industry and supplier news

Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE), the primary nonprofit organization charged with advancing market-based solutions for carpet recycling and landfill diversion, has named Brendan McSheehy as chairman of its board of directors. CARE also recently named its Recycler of the Year: Wellman Plastics Recycling (WPR), a CARE partner and a supplier of engineering and thermoplastic resins. WPR currently collects more than 100 million pounds of post-consumer carpet per year and processes the material into nylon, polyester and polypropylene resin products. More information is available here.

U.K. plastics recycling firm Closed Loop Recycling has teamed with eco-minded cleaning products brand Ecover to create packaging made partially from recycled plastic pulled out of the ocean. Next year the partnership will aim to turn 3 metric tons worth of plastic marine debris into plastic packaging. For more, click here.

7 | Upcoming conferences & webinars

Click here for a complete directory of upcoming conferences and webinars.

8 | Jobs Available & Sought

Service Technician, Plastics Recycling Equipment Company (Norcross, Georgia).
Details are available here.

Sales Manager, EREMA North America, Inc. (Ipswich, Massachusetts).
Details are available here.

Sales Director, Emerald Pacific (Austin, Texas / Mexico City).
Details are available here.

Sales and Marketing Professional, Birch Plastics, Inc. (Houston, Texas).
Details are available here.

Jobs Sought
Database of job seekers available here.