Executives cited elevated feedstock costs, lower inventories and constrained production resulting from the US war in Iran as support for a cumulative 12 cents in price increases nominated for October and November PE contracts.

A grant-funded granulator at J. Carter Enterprises has recovered about 250,000 pounds of plastic from Hitachi Energy’s oversized wire spools and is now available to other Missouri manufacturers.

Major packaging stakeholders discussed the impact of EPR on design choices and how geopolitics is reframing PCR adoption.

The Missouri-based company is adding capacity to recover HDPE from retired TenCate turf, providing demand for the hard-to-recycle material.

Designers, MRFs and policymakers often work in silos. APR's expanded design training puts them in the same room, and on the same plant floors.

APR and Circular Materials say policy goals risk failure without government actions that acknowledge market realities.

The global packager and recycler will open a new plant in spring 2027, and Alberta expands its accepted materials list and curbside recycling access.

Although the pipe maker's share of recycled plastic purchases hit a five-year low in fiscal 2026, the company is leveraging added capacity in Georgia to mitigate war-related risk.

Amid the current push to nearshore supply chains, e-plastics processors see opportunity – if handled correctly.

The brand-led group has moved more than 3 million pounds of flexible packaging from two California MRFs to reclaimers and opened a second round of RFIs.