Ikea buys a stake in a plastics recycling company, and a proposed plastics tax angers industry associations in Southeast Asia.
Ikea buys a stake in a plastics recycling company, and a proposed plastics tax angers industry associations in Southeast Asia.
A government insider says a U.K. bottle deposit is unlikely, and designers find a creative way to utilize discarded plastic bottles.
Converting used plastics into ultra-low-sulphur diesel fuel yields notable environmental benefits over traditional oil drilling and refining processes, according to a U.S. lab.
Nestle Waters North America will invest $6 million into the Closed Loop Fund, adding to the pool of money used to finance recycling infrastructure projects nationwide.
Pharmacies are encouraged to take advantage of a clean HDPE feedstock, and prize money is put up for packaging innovations.
Plentiful supply of curbside HDPE bales in the Southeast and U.S. Gulf Coast area pushed prices lower in mid-May as suppliers sought to move their rising inventories.
Coca-Cola and several other major companies recently invested millions of dollars to push forward a nascent resin called PEF, and the move raises questions about the composition of the plastics recycling stream in the decades to come.
Through the first three months of 2017, exports of recovered plastics were up 21 percent compared with 2016.
Price for recycled acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) have been rebounding in May, supported by tighter supply.
Avangard Innovative is continuing its efforts to optimize plastics recycling streams with the assistance of new technology, and the results are playing into bale price negotiations.