Plastics Recycling Update

News from Alberta Ag-Plastic, Closed Loop Partners & more

Alberta Ag-Plastic. Recycle It!, an agricultural plastic recycling pilot in Alberta, Canada, collected close to 2,270 tons of grain bag plastic and over 336 tons of plastic baler twine from October 2019 through December 2022. 

Closed Loop Partners released its 2022 impact report, finding that it kept 4.8 million tons of material in circulation with 65 investments to date. 

Loop Industries appointed Fady Mansour as chief financial officer. 

Healthy living company Thrive Market partnered with rePurpose Global to become plastic neutral certified by funding the recovery of as much nature-bound plastic as it uses in its branded product packaging and shipping materials. 

TC Transcontinental Packaging won three 2023 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards. 

A PET recycling pilot in El Paso, Texas run by Texans for Clean Water and Texan by Nature concluded after collecting over 100,000 PET items over seven months. 

Trexel partnered with German company W. Müller to supply a physical foaming solution for multi-layer, extrusion blow-molded containers. 

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