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The leader of a major West Coast trash and recyclables company is prepared to bankroll a California ballot measure taking aim at single-use plastics.
Companies from throughout the plastics value chain have committed more than $1 billion to reduce plastic waste by improving waste management systems and cleaning up existing pollution.
Envision Plastics has had success integrating marine plastics into the supply chain. But if more brand owners don’t step up to purchase the material, the whole effort may have to scale back, an executive at the reclaimer said.
Waste Management’s latest sustainability report delves into factors impacting the plastics recycling industry as a whole, including fluctuating markets, sustainable materials management, technological advances and more.
An Indorama Ventures executive says converging factors have led to growing recycled plastic demand, which is key to the resin maker’s acquisition of reclaimer Custom Polymers PET.
Not surprisingly, news on Asian market shakeups dominates our rundown of the most popular Plastics Recycling Update stories from 2018. But materials recovery investment from a prime resin producer and the development of a domestic facility also made the list.
Flexible packaging isn’t going away anytime soon, and an upcoming pilot project seeks to ensure it doesn’t go to landfill.
One of the world’s largest beverage companies will lend money to a Dutch startup that is commercializing a PET depolymerization technology.
The weight of plastic bottles collected for recycling continued to decrease in the U.S. in 2017, contributing to the third straight year of a declining recycling rate.
Maite Quinn, who has helped push forward mixed-plastics sortation at Sims Municipal Recycling, has joined a group working to boost material recovery infrastructure through investment capital.