The price of post-consumer natural HDPE tumbled by 23 percent over the past month, putting the value below what it was a year ago. Other key curbside plastics have shown recent stability.
The price of post-consumer natural HDPE tumbled by 23 percent over the past month, putting the value below what it was a year ago. Other key curbside plastics have shown recent stability.
This story has been updated.
The Indian government says it will ban scrap plastic imports, a move that threatens to further disrupt the U.S. recycling industry by closing a growing market.
Eyeing material from manufacturers in the Southeastern United States, Ontario-based Kal-Polymers has purchased a recycling and compounding operation in Georgia.
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.
Stories about emerging outlets for mixed plastics dominated our readers’ attention last month.
Resource Recycling, Inc., which produces a number of recycling trade publications and conferences, has been acquired by the Association of Plastic Recyclers.
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.
Worldwide retailer Walmart has announced a handful of new plastics recycling and waste reduction commitments.
Purdue University professor Linda Wang shows the oil product from a new polyolefin-to-oil conversion process.
A team at Purdue University has developed a unique method for converting scrap polyolefins into oil, fuels or monomers for use in new plastics.
Mixed plastics and recovered carpet aren’t usually the preferred feedstock for product manufacturers. But a Texas company making wood alternatives for the construction sector is building its business around those very materials.