A company working to cut into the plastic bottle market with its paper-based container recently got financial assistance from the state of California.
A company working to cut into the plastic bottle market with its paper-based container recently got financial assistance from the state of California.
California officials will slow their process of crafting mandatory recycling rules for plastic packaging, citing upheavals caused by China’s import restrictions.
An agricultural plastics collection company has expanded substantially in the past year, opening a processing facility in California and growing its collection volumes across the Midwest.
Two equipment companies will demonstrate an inline system capable of taking PET bottle flake through to sheet.
Increasing end market demand and improving infrastructure are essential ingredients for a sustainable plastics recycling industry – and for recycling as a whole.
China has ratcheted up inspection requirements for recyclables imported from the U.S., requiring every load to be opened for inspection and shutting down the only organization providing pre-shipment approval in the U.S.
Composite lumber manufacturer Trex says low feedstock prices continue to help it achieve boosted profits in the first quarter of the year.
A portable twin-screw extruder will help U.S. troops recycle in far-flung places, and European brand owners work to incorporate recycled-content into a demanding packaging application.
The facility of Tigard, Ore.-based Agilyx, which processes polystyrene and recently entered a partnership with virgin plastics maker Ineos Styrolution.
Major prime plastics producers have recently made moves to embrace cutting-edge recycling technologies, including applying depolymerization to challenging plastics streams.
Swedish apparel giant H&M last year saw a notable drop in its consumption of recovered PET for polyester applications. But the company did report progress on marine debris, depolymerization and other initiatives.