Roxanne Spiekerman of PreZero US was elected APR board chair for the upcoming year. | Plastics Recycling Conference/Brian Adams Photo
The Association of Plastic Recyclers has chosen its executive committee and board of directors for the coming year.
A report from Google suggests that reaching a circular economy will require rethinking design, reducing resource consumption, recycling and other interventions. | Nevodka/Shutterstock
A report from one of the world’s biggest tech companies finds that both chemical and mechanical recycling will be needed to close the plastics loop by 2040. The company also discusses taxes on virgin plastics.
Timeline final update: March 22, 2022
Greg Johnson, Evergreen’s general manager of resin and recycling, presents at the Plastics Recycling Conference last week. | Brian Adams Photography
When private equity fund The Sterling Group acquired Evergreen, staff at the PET reclaimer were nervous, Greg Johnson included.
According to a national pricing index, the value of scrap PET, color HDPE and PP bales all surged of late, with increases in the double-digit percentages.
The PET Recycling Coalition will launch in the next few months and will provide grants to MRFs and other facilities to increase the capture of PET beyond bottles. | Kwangmoozaa/Shutterstock
The Recycling Partnership will launch a PET Recycling Coalition to find solutions for common recycling challenges, a representative of the nonprofit group announced at last week’s Plastics Recycling Conference.
Starlinger and Co. received letters of no-objection for the company’s technologies for recycling HDPE scrap into food-grade post-consumer resin. | Starlinger and Co.
The U.S. FDA green-lighted a process to recycle LLDPE scrap into food packaging, one of several letters the agency issued over the past seven months.
Components under construction for PureCycle’s polypropylene-focused operation. | Business Wire
Two emerging plastic recycling companies, PureCycle and Encina, have raised a combined $300 million in investments for their projects.
News that shipping company CMA CGM would no longer ship certain categories of plastic scrap made waves last month. | EQRoy/Shutterstock
Major announcements by plastics reclaimers, a shipping line’s decision to stop carrying plastic scrap and more drew our readers’ clicks last month.
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