Proposed legislation to reduce plastic pollution caught readers’ attention. | LLoughran/Shutterstock
A variety of legislation, markets and technology stories drew readers’ attention last month.
Proposed legislation to reduce plastic pollution caught readers’ attention. | LLoughran/Shutterstock
A variety of legislation, markets and technology stories drew readers’ attention last month.
Ongoing economic uncertainty has contributed to the freight market shift. | Vitpho/Shutterstock
Multiple factors have led to lower demand for trucking, bringing shipping cost relief to many in the recycling industry.
An integrated plastics reclaimer counters claims about the non-recyclability of black plastics, and a UK company develops a more-efficient plastics-to-oil process using water.
A project to develop depolymerization catalysts advances with support from a worldwide plastics company, and a bottled water company installs a PET recycling line.
An extruder is used to pulverize contaminated plastics into a powder for extrusion into printer filament, and LDPE film deinking demonstrations are scheduled for November.
A compounder moves further into the recycled-content space, a recycling machine is literally taken into space and a magazine piece explores black plastic recycling challenges.
A solvent-based process will be used to recover polymers from multi-layer flexible packaging and fiber-reinforced plastics, and sorting technologies have been installed in New Zealand’s first PET recycling plant.
Starlinger’s post-consumer PET processing lines are coming to a Pennsylvania facility, and an acrylic glass depolymerization project is launched.
The acquisition of a U.S. PET reclaimer captured clicks last month. | Lipik Stock Media/Shutterstock
A diverse group of stories drew readers’ attention last month, touching on chemical recycling, infrastructure needs and a legal case.
Cargo ships on the water in California. | Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock
The first six months of 2019 have been a news whirlwind for the plastics recycling sector, with continued export shakeups, major investment announcements, and bold strategy moves by both brands and processors.