Nestlé Waters North America has begun adding the How2Recycle label to half-liter PET bottles of all its major U.S. bottled water brands.
Nestlé Waters North America has begun adding the How2Recycle label to half-liter PET bottles of all its major U.S. bottled water brands.
Another container redemption center shutters in Connecticut, and an Oregon company inks a deal to supply its styrene monomer extracted from recycled polystyrene.
The Closed Loop Fund invests in end markets for often-landfilled mixed plastics, and a chemical company develops recyclable films for making food pouches.
Many of us carry gift cards in our wallets – especially after the holidays – but they’re almost never recycled. However, a recent U.K. effort offers a model for material recovery.
In bulky rigid plastics recycling, the materials recovery facility is at the center of the equation. But downstream developments have also been key to monetizing a material that was long seen as a contaminant.
An environmental group leader in Hong Kong raises concerns about China’s proposed import prohibition, and an agricultural plastics recycling program finds success in Minnesota.
A $3 million loan from the Closed Loop Fund will help an end user of recycled plastics scale up its production capacity by 50 percent.
Trade and technology stories grabbed our readers’ interest in July, particularly China’s announcement of a ban on recovered plastics imports.
A tissue and packaging producer has introduced to the U.S. market a recycled content foam polystyrene tray.
This story has been updated.
As California moves forward developing mandatory policies for the recycling of packaging, regulators want public input on some of the criteria they should consider.