The price of recovered natural HDPE bales has climbed again, in some areas breaking recent records. Continue Reading
The price of recovered natural HDPE bales has climbed again, in some areas breaking recent records. Continue Reading
New Brunswick will require that manufacturers pay for the end-of-life collection and processing of the packaging materials they produce.
A Mexican company that developed a system to process post-consumer PET thermoforms will open a $7 million plant in the Los Angeles area. It’s now on the hunt for thermoform bales. Continue Reading
Overseas appetite for post-consumer scrap plastic dwindled in the third quarter. But on the domestic side, the value of recovered natural HDPE has skyrocketed and RPET demand remains strong. Continue Reading
Densified PET fiber from post-consumer carpet will ride railcars from California to Tennessee, where chemical giant Eastman will feed it into a gasification process. Continue Reading
The CEO of West Coast hauler Recology teamed up with environmentalists to this week submit a proposed California ballot initiative taking aim at single-use plastics. Continue Reading
The Coca-Cola Co. released a container made partially from ocean plastic, making it the latest company to pursue a food-contact application for the low-grade material.
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Seeing strong demand, Loop Industries and Indorama Ventures have decided to roughly double the capacity of their first PET depolymerization unit.
Global oil and gas company BP will spend $25 million on an Illinois facility that will depolymerize hard-to-recycle PET scrap. Continue Reading
Erema got the nod from the U.S. government to use its technology for recycling post-consumer HDPE into food and drink packaging.