Avangard Innovative recently installed a customized recycling line at its LDPE recovery facility in Houston. The system is aimed at tackling an issue the company faced while processing commercial film: odor.
Avangard Innovative recently installed a customized recycling line at its LDPE recovery facility in Houston. The system is aimed at tackling an issue the company faced while processing commercial film: odor.
Parties working to reopen an idled plastics recovery facility in Maryland are going back to the drawing board after a possible investor withdrew from talks.
Plastics-to-fuel companies are asking federal lawmakers to include their sector in tax provisions benefiting alternative fuel producers.
A $20 million New Jersey plastics recycling facility is in development, and project leaders say it will process roughly 100 million pounds of scrap plastics per year for sale into a variety of end markets.
Researchers from the University of Illinois have developed a non-toxic method for recycling polycarbonate plastic, which is often used in electronics and other products but has been difficult to cost-effectively divert from the waste stream.
North Carolina-based Plastic Revolutions is expanding to separate certain resins from mixed plastic bales, a response to growing supply as China’s import policies take hold.
An Indiana-based recycled plastics broker will open a $2.3 million processing plant.
A PET reclaimer will open its third recycling plant next year, adding another 100 million pounds of processing capacity.
A researcher has found black plastics from electronics are being recycled into a variety of household applications, despite still containing additives that he says could be hazardous.
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Canadian companies Emterra Group and Merlin Plastics are deepening their ongoing partnership, with an eye on the evolving world of corporate sustainability.