Trade tensions between the U.S. and China have come closer to directly impacting the plastics recycling industry.
Trade tensions between the U.S. and China have come closer to directly impacting the plastics recycling industry.
Prices continue to climb for PET and HDPE containers collected at the curb, but the news wasn’t so good for mixed plastics, which have a negative value in many regions.
Readers last month were particularly interested in a prime plastic producer’s move into the recycling realm, as well as development of a $20 million plastics processing facility in the Northeast.
An initiative that has been the source of industry debate over recovery of hard-to-recycle plastic packaging is awarding $100,000 in grants to expand to more communities.
Keefe Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership, at the 2016 Resource Recycling Conference.
The Recycling Partnership now has nearly 40 industry entities behind it. That raises an interesting question: How does one organization balance the needs of so many corporate backers?
A company using enzymes to break down PET into its components has successfully applied its technology to textiles.
Researchers will use compatibilizers to determine what kind of properties they can achieve when recycling multi-material flexible plastics from hospitals. Their work will help determine recycling options for a substantial portion of the health care plastics waste stream.
A robotic sorting system, PET packaging breakthrough and melt filter advancement took the limelight in this year’s Plastics Recycling Showcase.
A project aims to recycle vinyl-coated polyester woven fabrics used on billboards, and compounding technology proves key to achieving the desired shelf appeal for a bottle made from marine plastics.