An optical sorting technology and two approaches to PET recycling are among the items we detail in this month’s look at industry-related patents.
An optical sorting technology and two approaches to PET recycling are among the items we detail in this month’s look at industry-related patents.
Montreal-based Loop Industries is working to commercialize its heatless, pressureless PET depolymerization technology after raising millions of dollars from investors earlier this year.
A recyclable, recycled-content polyester material has been developed for automotive components, and a high-molecular-weight PLA could replace PP in packaging.
Two men are out of jail and awaiting a court date after they were arrested for possessing stolen plastics and selling the material to buyers in China.
The average value of recovered material sent to foreign markets is back under 17 cents per pound. Volumes are up year-over-year, however.
HoPP repro and regrind prices fell last week on an oversupply of recyclable post-industrial and post-consumer PP scrap in many parts of the U.S.
A research project has boosted the quality of recycled PET when used in foam, potentially opening the door to new applications for the recovered plastic.
Construction has started on a facility to recycle vehicle airbag scrap into a high-quality polyamide 6.6, according to international chemical company Solvay.
Following the lead of Los Angeles, Chicago has become the second largest city in the country to pass a plastic bag ban ordinance.
The United States recycled more plastic in its municipal solid waste stream in 2014, continuing a long-standing trend. But the increase was relatively modest.