A major brand owner says it will be using 25 percent recycled plastic in the packaging for all of its U.S. products in three years.
A major brand owner says it will be using 25 percent recycled plastic in the packaging for all of its U.S. products in three years.
William (Bill) Carteaux, who was central to many plastics recycling conversations as head of the Plastics Industry Association, has died at the age of 59.
Markets for post-consumer PET and HDPE have shown stability, while the price of color HDPE has recently increased.
PET recycling startup Loop Industries has inked another deal with a global food and beverage brand.
Flexible packaging isn’t going away anytime soon, and an upcoming pilot project seeks to ensure it doesn’t go to landfill.
Authorities have seized thousands of pounds of beverage containers and made multiple arrests in an alleged scheme to defraud the container deposit program in California.
Southeast Asian countries are moving to constrain imports of recyclables, but some exporters are mislabeling scrap plastic shipments to get around the restrictions.
The U.S. PET bottle recycling rate inched upward to 29.2 percent last year.
Nestlé Waters North America has signed a pre-buy agreement with CarbonLite, deepening its already entwined relationship with the PET reclaimer.
The head of the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) recently voiced concerns that plastics recovery progress could get dampened by stakeholders’ transition to more holistic approaches to materials management.