Researchers collected and sorted through more than 38,000 pounds of mixed recyclables from 173 sample loads. | Rubens Alarcon/Shutterstock
Researchers have quantified contamination in the business recycling stream in the Portland, Ore. metropolitan area, providing data that can be used to make operational or outreach decisions.
A group of companies recently received approval to use their recycling technologies to create recycled plastic for use in food packaging.| Dolores M. Harvey/Shutterstock
The European Food Safety Authority gave four companies approval to recycle PET into food packaging using Erema and Starlinger technologies. Meanwhile, an application from Veolia was rejected.
Two labels and two families of washable inks recently met APR’s critical guidance protocols. | Photo Play/Shutterstock
Four label innovations that prevent problems in the PET recycling process recently received recognition from the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR).
Coperion recently supplied extruders from its ZSK line to a German post-industrial scrap plastics processor called Aurora Kunststoffe.
German equipment supplier Coperion now produces a line of extruders made to be customized to a plastics recycling facility.
A bottle delabeler goes to work in a PET sorting plant, and a number of major corporations sign deals with chemical recycling companies.