A new report emphasizes improved collection and separation efforts – which lead to higher recycling rates – as a key way to prevent plastics from entering water bodies.
A new report emphasizes improved collection and separation efforts – which lead to higher recycling rates – as a key way to prevent plastics from entering water bodies.
The Association of Plastic Recyclers describes the relationship between plastics recovery and sustainability, and recycled-plastic products on two continents are highlighted.
Europe’s PET trade group reports on efforts to boost thermoform recycling, and Tomra wins an award in China for its advanced flake sortation technology.
The Association of Plastic Recyclers spotlighted five recycled-product innovations and one educational effort at the group’s first Plastic Recycling Showcase this week.
GM expands its bottle recycling program, and a fight is brewing among plastics stakeholders in Europe over disposable cutlery.
An international metals recycling company jumps into the PET recycling business, and Scotland mulls a beverage container deposit program.
Logistics experts predict the current low costs of moving recyclables from processing plants to end-use mills will continue through the end of the year.
Through the first four months of 2016, export volumes of recovered plastics were 7.7 percent lower than totals from this time last year.
Europe could be in line for more plastics recovery, and China is reportedly weighing the pros and cons of banning imports of waste plastics.
China’s appetite for rPET fuels infrastructure in Pakistan, and Taiwan continues to propel recovery of a wide range of material.