The world’s largest retailer underreported the number of containers it distributed over a three-year period in California, leading to $7.2 million in unpaid deposits to the state. The balance was paid in full late last year after it was revealed during an audit.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow recycled PET fiber to be used to make tea bags, fruit or meat packaging and more. It also gave the go-ahead to use recycled plastics in several types of thermoform packaging.
A major city bans straws and single-use plastic utensils, and plastic processing shoots for the stars with a new space-specific recycling technology.
Achievements in flexible film packaging recycling are announced, and a new modifier for polyamides is released.
An outreach campaign sees success in boosting plastic bottle recycling in North Carolina, and a major city decides not to pursue bag fees.
Daniele Vinci
Chemicals giant Dow has developed an adhesive that allows flexible film packaging with layers of PET and aluminum to be replaced by all-polyolefin films, which are easier to recycle.
Recycling processors report that early September pricing for recovered plastic packaging rose slightly over August levels.
The Recycling Partnership provides some tips on how to weather the upcoming ban, and ISRI says meeting a 0.3 percent contamination limit is impossible.
Rob Kaplan
In less than half a decade, the Closed Loop Fund has become a household name in the recycling industry, putting sizable capital behind a range of materials recovery initiatives. A leader from the investment effort recently put the fund’s path into perspective.
Last month, readers were drawn to content about a much-publicized plastics recovery facility suspending its operations and a beverage company’s interest in supporting recycling infrastructure.