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.
Markets for post-consumer PET and HDPE have shown stability, while the price of color HDPE has recently increased.
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.
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.
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.
PET recycling startup Loop Industries has inked another deal with a global food and beverage brand.