Plastics Recycling Update

News from Closed Loop Partners, Circulate Initiative & more

The Association of Plastic Recyclers elected its 2023 board of directors. 

Maintenance and repair company Castolin Eutectic published a technical paper on wearfacing technologies, which reduce equipment downtime, maintenance and operating costs.

Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy and its Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag released a new playbook with near-term single-use bag reduction solutions. 

Ocean plastic solutions nonprofit the Circulate Initiative launched a Plastics Circularity Investment Tracker that discloses the amount of private investments directed to the plastics circular economy in emerging markets.

U.S. thermoform plastic packaging producer Display Pack installed Starlinger’s deCON IV+ tray extrusion system. 

CEO of Evergreen Recycling Omar Abuaita is retiring and Gary Alstott, formerly president of small packaging at Mauser Packaging, will take on the role.  

Save That Stuff of Boston increased its capacity to up to 2,000 pounds per hour of plastic clothes hangers by installing a turnkey plastics recycling system from Cumberland. 

SK Chemicals signed a deal to acquire chemical recycling assets from Chinese company Shuye to produce commercial quantities of chemically recycled RPET. 

 

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