An employee working at Poly-Wood’s existing production plant in Roxboro, N.C. | Courtesy of Person County Economic Development
Recycled plastic furniture manufacturer Poly-Wood will invest tens of millions of dollars in its North Carolina plant.
Associate Editor Jared Paben has worked for Resource Recycling since December 2014. Most of his earlier career was spent as a reporter for the daily newspaper in Bellingham, Wash., but he also has experience working for the Oregon volunteerism commission and for Oregon nonprofits serving low-income populations. He can be contacted at [email protected].An employee working at Poly-Wood’s existing production plant in Roxboro, N.C. | Courtesy of Person County Economic Development
Recycled plastic furniture manufacturer Poly-Wood will invest tens of millions of dollars in its North Carolina plant.
SK Global Chemical has a goal of recycling 900,000 tons of plastic scrap per year by 2025. | Freedomz / Shutterstock
Global resin maker SK Global Chemical has put millions into an industry group’s initiative to boost the circular economy for plastics.
According to Recycle BC, 32,804 metric tons of plastic were collected by the program, up 12.3% from the year before. | VanderWolf Images / Shutterstock
British Columbia’s producer-funded recycling system recovered 52% of plastic last year, up sharply from the year before.
Research scientists are working to solve the challenge of recycling artificial turf. | severija / Shutterstock
Efforts in Europe will leverage chemical recycling technologies to recover plastics from two particularly problematic sources: wind turbine blades and artificial turf.
Na Kyung-soo, CEO of SK Global Chemical, signs the strategic investment agreement with Loop Industries on June 23. | Courtesy of SK Global Chemical
Quebec-based Loop Industries is receiving a $56 million equity investment from plastics giant SK Global Chemical to help it grow its PET depolymerization business.
Metaspectral’s vision system is capable of operating at conveyor belt speeds of up to 10 meters per second. | Nordroden / Shutterstock
The government of British Columbia is helping to fund development of a high-precision scrap plastics identification technology, according to the developer.
The recently drafted “Recycling Infrastructure Plan” includes requests for funding of $3.3 billion in physical infrastructure and $3.3 billion for infrastructure support policies and programs for the first year. | zlikovec / Shutterstock
Nonprofit organizations have drafted a plan for federal spending on recycling infrastructure, and much of the document takes aim at plastics.
PET bottle labels can be problematic to the plastics recycling process, but three PET bottle label innovations recently received letters confirming their compatibility. | Ho Su A Bi / Shutterstock
The Association of Plastic Recyclers has recognized three shrink label innovations for their compatibility with PET recycling processes.
A collaboration will provide over $9 million to boost recycling in Baltimore. | iofoto / Shutterstock
Over 200,000 Baltimore households will receive free recycling carts after corporate, nonprofit and government partners collaborated to provide cash grants and more.
S&P Global Platts will now provide daily price assessments for an expanded range of recycled plastics. | Things / Shutterstock
After rolling out a recovered PET price tracking service last year, S&P Global Platts is now reporting prices for recovered HDPE, LDPE and PP.