Photos of last week’s Plastics Recycling Conference and Trade Show capture the learning, deal-making and networking at the annual event.
Photos of last week’s Plastics Recycling Conference and Trade Show capture the learning, deal-making and networking at the annual event.
Polychem, a manufacturer of recycled polyester strapping, has been purchased by a private equity firm.
Consumer packaged goods companies, retailers and packaging producers pledged to buy 5 million metric tons of recycled plastic by 2025, according to an Ellen MacArthur Foundation report.
Now Plastics, a global film and aluminum foil supplier, is now offering packaging companies films made with post-consumer PET.
Executives from large resin makers say circular economy principles are key to their companies’ long-term viability. Putting such a strategy into action will be no easy task, however.
The price of post-consumer natural HDPE tumbled by 23 percent over the past month, putting the value below what it was a year ago. Other key curbside plastics have shown recent stability.
This story has been updated.
The Indian government says it will ban scrap plastic imports, a move that threatens to further disrupt the U.S. recycling industry by closing a growing market.
Eyeing material from manufacturers in the Southeastern United States, Ontario-based Kal-Polymers has purchased a recycling and compounding operation in Georgia.