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BHS equipment in CarbonLITE’s Dallas PET recycling facility.
Bulk Handling Systems will provide robots and other sorting innovations for an upcoming PET recycling plant in Pennsylvania.
The EFS-Plastics facility in Listowel, Ontario.
Many municipal programs and facilities have recently tried to cut back on mixed plastics, citing tight markets. But reclaimer EFS-Plastics has plans to open a third North American operation and is on the hunt for more mixed bales to fuel its growth.
A city of Phoenix evaluation team is recommending plastics-to-fuel company Renewlogy be selected to operate a diversion program recovering post-consumer No. 3-7 plastics.
Plastics producer Eastman is developing a polyester depolymerization technology, and the company aims to incorporate it into a commercial-scale facility in the next few years.
Wind turbines generate clean and renewable power, but when their blades reach end-of-life, the options – burning or landfilling – aren’t so green.
Backers of a plastics-to-fuel project in Indiana announced they are preparing to break ground on a $260 million commercial-scale facility.
A compounder has introduced a new engineering-grade pellet that contains up to 50% recycled content.