News of Nestle’s intentions to buy a huge quantity of food-grade recycled resin captured attention last month. | Formatoriginal/Shutterstock
A mix of stories drew readers’ interest last month, including articles about post-consumer resin commitments, a sorting technology, processing capacity increases and import policies.
Bag producers pledged to support municipal programs in educating the public on proper bag recycling. | Ivanova Tetyana/Shutterstock
A coalition of bag manufacturers is committing to use more recycled plastic in the coming years. Recycling stakeholders are reacting to the pledge, which will include both post-consumer and post-industrial resin.
Avangard plans to bring a Mexico City-area facility on-line at the end of the fourth quarter of 2020 or early in the first quarter of 2021. | taniascamera/Shutterstock
After opening a film recycling facility in the Houston area, Avangard Innovative will develop a similar processing site in the Mexico City area, the company’s CEO said.
Millions of pounds of PE film will be flowing to Berry Global from Georgia-Pacific Recycling. | mindroom14/Shutterstock
Under a newly inked deal, packaging company Berry Global will recycle PE film supplied by Georgia-Pacific into new film products.
Living Proof recently tested the recyclability of some of the company’s hair care product packaging.
The Association of Plastic Recyclers recently recognized the recyclability of three packaging innovations: a 100% plastic aerosol bottle, a tube with an EVOH barrier, and an HDPE bottle with copolymer coating.
The newly announced additives can improve various qualities of recycled plastics. | Mr_Mrs_Marcha/Shutterstock
Ampacet, ExxonMobil and other producers of additives that boost the quality of recycled plastics have made a number of announcements lately.
A recyclable Colgate-Palmolive tube undergoes recyclability testing in Europe, and a number of equipment innovations are up for awards.
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A processing line now operational in the U.K. recycles plastics from refrigerators by modifying the density of water and leveraging electrostatic separation.
Pyrowave’s processing equipment in Montreal. | Courtesy of Pyrowave.
A depolymerization technology company received millions of dollars from the Canadian government to adapt its polystyrene-focused process to handle mixed plastics.
The new equipment will allow Denton Plastics to take in contaminated source-separated plastics that are too dirty for the company to process today, such as material from plant nurseries. | Zoran Milosavljevic/Shutterstock
Oregon-based Denton Plastics will add equipment allowing the company to process contaminated source-separated plastics.