California legislators are expected to take up recycling-related legislation again in 2020. | Jeffrey B. Banke/Shutterstock
California legislators are expected to take up recycling-related legislation again in 2020. | Jeffrey B. Banke/Shutterstock
Prices for natural HDPE bales have remained at record highs this month, but color HDPE bale prices have fallen.
The collection program was made possible through a nearly $39,000 grant from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. | eleonimages/Shutterstock
A state grant will enable a four-month pilot agricultural film recycling program in the Northeast.
Dow is aiming to have a significant supply of post-consumer resin products. | StanislauV/Shutterstock
Dow signed a deal to buy recycled polyethylene pellets from Avangard Innovative, allowing the petrochemical giant to provide recycled-content plastic to North American customers for the first time.
News about a pouch made of 20% post-consumer plastic captured clicks in 2019. | Courtesy of Mondi.
Readers of our Plastics Recycling Update: Technology Edition newsletter were drawn to stories about equipment and additive innovations, brand owner investments, PCR use in packaging and, in particular, food-contact approvals in the U.S. and Europe.
Michael Pluimer of Crossroad Engineering Services gathers data on the performance of recycled-HDPE corrugated pipe in southeastern Pennsylvania. | Courtesy of Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS).
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A group’s green light to use recycled HDPE in road drainage pipes opens a potentially massive market for recovered plastic. Officials recently explained the work that drove the decision.
With the 2020 Plastics Recycling Conference and Trade Show a little more than a month away, we’re offering another conversation with an expert set to take to the conference stage in Nashville.
Through the Bradley Beach, N.J. partnership, SC Johnson is providing financial support to assist with infrastructure costs. | Courtesy of SC Johnson
SC Johnson recently launched a pilot curbside film collection program in a small New Jersey community. Rather than mix film into existing single-stream recycling, the program has residents use a dedicated container.
This photo shows the optical sorter module developed to test the sorting of packaging with the Digimarc digital marker. The barcode scanning system works in conjunction with NIR identification. | Courtesy of Digimarc.
A major packaging producer will begin using a discrete barcode technology that can provide optical sorters with critical recycling information.
The development of a new domestic e-plastics outlet comes at a time of market turbulence for the low-value materials. | KPixMining/Shutterstock
An Indiana plastics processing operation will consume roughly 40 million pounds of plastic from e-scrap and other products annually. Brightmark Energy plans to start up the facility in mid-2020.