After used nets are collected, they undergo a cleaning and drying process before they’re baled and sent to a reclaimer.
A consortium focused on recovering marine plastics for recycling has rolled out its first product: an office chair made with recycled nylon.
Plastics reclaimer Applied Materials Trading is buying additional processing equipment and moving into a larger space.
A PET reclaimer will open its third recycling plant next year, adding another 100 million pounds of processing capacity.
An Indiana-based recycled plastics broker will open a $2.3 million processing plant.
A sample of products containing bromine, as found by researchers.
A researcher has found black plastics from electronics are being recycled into a variety of household applications, despite still containing additives that he says could be hazardous.
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Canadian companies Emterra Group and Merlin Plastics are deepening their ongoing partnership, with an eye on the evolving world of corporate sustainability.
Ecoplast operates a plastics processing plant in Wildon, Austria. Credit: Ecoplast
Virgin resin giant Borealis will purchase a European plastics reclaimer, the latest move by the prime plastics maker to extend its recycling presence.
A major southwest city is looking to develop a facility that will process the city’s mixed plastics stream through plastics-to-fuel or mechanical recycling. It has received three proposals.
When a vehicle enters the end-of-life stream, its metals will probably be recovered. But the plastics are likely headed to landfill, despite the fact that many of them are high-value, high-performance polymers.
A Chinese company will open a plastics recycling facility in Georgia, the latest instance in a growing trend of Chinese investment in North American processing infrastructure.