A solvent-based process will be used to recover polymers from multi-layer flexible packaging and fiber-reinforced plastics, and sorting technologies have been installed in New Zealand’s first PET recycling plant.
Starlinger’s post-consumer PET processing lines are coming to a Pennsylvania facility, and an acrylic glass depolymerization project is launched.
Green Machine has released an optical sorter that incorporates newly patented technology.
This article has been corrected.
Research focused on recycling scrap PET bottles and carpet into a reinforced polymer composite received federal funding recently.
An Italian company that recycles post-consumer nylon will spend over $40 million to acquire a North Carolina fiber manufacturer.
A handful of industry groups and plastics producers are teaming up on a 60-day effort to try to capture a wider variety of materials from the flow of curbside recyclables in Portland, Ore.
Colgate-Palmolive has developed a toothpaste tube that passed tests for sortability by materials recovery facilities and processability by plastics reclaimers.
A wash line from equipment supplier Herbold Meckesheim USA cleans a variety of inbound recycled plastic streams as they enter the recycling process.
A sample of the Activ-Check screen.
Installing the right equipment is half the battle, but optimizing it for smooth performance is also crucial to success.
Although the recoSTAR line of plastics processing equipment was already available in six sizes, Starlinger added a seventh to meet yet another application last year.