A half-million dollars is up for grabs as part of a recycling market development competition launched in New York City. The entrepreneur behind the effort recently provided more details on the initiative.
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].A half-million dollars is up for grabs as part of a recycling market development competition launched in New York City. The entrepreneur behind the effort recently provided more details on the initiative.
TruClean’s anti-static properties are demonstrated in a Unifi video.
A major consumer of U.S. PET bales has unveiled three products made with recycled polyester and nylon.
Researchers overseas say high-impact polystyrene from scrap electronics can be used as a replacement for sand in self-compacting concrete.
A PET recycling industry group gave its temporary blessing to the use shrink sleeve labels with perforations, which will assist in sorting and recycling.
For decades, an index has reported prices for recovered plastics in Canada’s most populous province. The group behind the sheet recently evaluated how it compares with other market reports.
Polychem, a manufacturer of recycled polyester strapping, has been purchased by a private equity firm.
Consumer packaged goods companies, retailers and packaging producers pledged to buy 5 million metric tons of recycled plastic by 2025, according to an Ellen MacArthur Foundation report.
Now Plastics, a global film and aluminum foil supplier, is now offering packaging companies films made with post-consumer PET.
PET reclaimer Loop Industries has settled a longstanding lawsuit concerning the company’s stock. Meanwhile, the business recently sold millions of dollars worth of stock to an unnamed institutional investor.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave a New England plastics reclaimer the thumbs up to recycle a polyolefin blend for use in cutlery and food packaging.