Stories about emerging outlets for mixed plastics dominated our readers’ attention last month.
Stories about emerging outlets for mixed plastics dominated our readers’ attention last month.
A number of companies have announced developments in technologies for breaking down plastics for use in other products. Here are a few of the notable news items.
Over the last year, China has closed its doors to virtually all recovered plastic imports, leading to turmoil for exporters and others. But are recycling connections between North America and China ending, or simply evolving?
Articles about chemical companies and retailers moving to embrace recycling grabbed readers’ attention last month.
A patented cleaning process allows for the use of RPET in heat sealable polyester packaging film, and PET depolymerization technologies get a boost.
Brand owners are under pressure to incorporate environmentally friendly packaging, and they often look to the recycling industry for help.
Stories about beverage companies using recycled plastic, a facility sorting flexible packaging, a chemical producer embracing pyrolysis and authorities dismantling a fraud scheme drew readers’ attention last month.
Not surprisingly, news on Asian market shakeups dominates our rundown of the most popular Plastics Recycling Update stories from 2018. But materials recovery investment from a prime resin producer and the development of a domestic facility also made the list.
Recycled PE and PP waxes are found to boost asphalt performance, and nylon 6,6 recovered from airbag scrap is used in new pressure washers.
The 2019 Plastics Recycling Conference will open with a highly anticipated session bringing virgin plastics manufacturers to the stage to discuss their work pushing for circular economy solutions for polymers.