The Closed Loop Fund invests in end markets for often-landfilled mixed plastics, and a chemical company develops recyclable films for making food pouches.
The Closed Loop Fund invests in end markets for often-landfilled mixed plastics, and a chemical company develops recyclable films for making food pouches.
An environmental group leader in Hong Kong raises concerns about China’s proposed import prohibition, and an agricultural plastics recycling program finds success in Minnesota.
Trade and technology stories grabbed our readers’ interest in July, particularly China’s announcement of a ban on recovered plastics imports.
The American Chemistry Council responds to the latest study quantifying plastics production and recycling, and San Diego plans to spend $90,000 per year to recycle PS food-service containers.
Government funding boosts an agricultural PP processing plant, and retailers in two countries reduce their use of thin plastic bags.
A Massachusetts-based recycling firm has filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that five large plastics companies and the American Chemistry Council have illegally conspired against the company, resulting in harm to its business. Continue Reading
Coca-Cola’s U.K. distributor announces new recycling goals, and some scientists criticize a marine plastics cleanup project that would send floating collection machinery into the oceans.
A fast-food giant reintroduces foam cups into its Chicago-area restaurants, and one company uses an anaerobic digestion process on end-of-life plastics.
The PET recycling rate is increasing in South Africa, and a PVC recycling program in the U.K. gets kudos.
Residents of a settlement in Zambia collect and sell scrap plastics in place of a formal hauling service, and ag plastics recycling efforts grow in Australia.