PET and HDPE bales are fetching lower prices than they were a month ago, but PP and high-grade film have shown stability.
PET and HDPE bales are fetching lower prices than they were a month ago, but PP and high-grade film have shown stability.
Low prices for key commodities have, in some cases, led to the removal of plastics from curbside recycling programs. | Johnny Habell/Shutterstock
North America’s largest companies collecting, sorting and selling curbside plastics continue to feel the pain of low commodity prices.
Keurig Dr Pepper says it will make all K-Cup coffee pods in the U.S. recyclable by 2020. | Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock
Keurig Dr Pepper announced its goal of using 30% post-consumer content across its packaging portfolio by 2025.
Coca-Cola has a goal to make its bottles and cans with an average of 50% recycled material by 2030. | Sundry Photography/Shutterstock
Coca-Cola will use recycled PET and plant-derived plastic in a Dasani water bottle, creating a package known as the “HybridBottle.” The move is one of several recycling-related changes being rolled out.
In 2017, the Oregon program doubled its deposit value from 5 cents per container to 10 cents. | Courtesy of OBRC.
Oregon’s container deposit system achieved an 81% redemption rate last year, significantly higher than the previous full-year figure. The increase comes after the deposit value doubled.
Sonoco has pledged to boost the post-consumer content in its plastics packaging to 25% by 2025. | Janthiwa Sutthiboriban/Shutterstock
A packaging giant has notched upward the amount of RPET it uses in its food containers.
The longest-running container deposit program in the country expects to hit its highest redemption rate in years, shortly after the program doubled its deposit to 10 cents.
IBM has a goal to recover more PET from highly contaminated streams. | Credit: Wall Street Journal video.
Three different chemistry-based processes for recovering plastics have recently grabbed attention, illustrating the wide range of stakeholders working to find solutions beyond mechanical recycling.
Argentina-based Arqlite’s first gravel products were sold to customers earlier this year. | Courtesy of Arqlite.
Consulting firm B-Green was helping consumer brand owners reduce waste to landfill, but the companies’ packaging lacked a diversion solution. So B-Green went to work developing a recycling technology and end product.
The U.K. government is helping to fund recycled PP and PE deodorizing research, and an ultrafine PET melt filter is developed.