Coca-Cola will invest more than $19 million in a PET recycling facility in the Philippines, marking the company’s first plastics recycling operation in Southeast Asia.
Coca-Cola will invest more than $19 million in a PET recycling facility in the Philippines, marking the company’s first plastics recycling operation in Southeast Asia.
Nestlé Waters North America is betting that it can connect with consumers over the long term by using high levels of recovered material.
One of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods companies will roll out a black plastic HDPE bottle that near-infrared sorters can identify.
Retailers supplied composite lumber manufacturer Trex with more than 130 million pounds of recovered film last year. Meanwhile, production issues reduced company profits in the first quarter.
Tech giant HP recently spent $2 million to help improve infrastructure for recovering plastics at risk of entering the ocean. The investment is expected to create jobs in an impoverished area and move more material into the recycling stream.
Last year, 45 producers reported selling plastic beverage containers to California consumers. Of those businesses, 13 said their bottles incorporated some amount of recycled plastic.
Global apparel company H&M used the equivalent of 325 million PET bottles in its recycled polyester last year, substantially up from the year before.
TruClean’s anti-static properties are demonstrated in a Unifi video.
A major consumer of U.S. PET bales has unveiled three products made with recycled polyester and nylon.
Consumer packaged goods companies, retailers and packaging producers pledged to buy 5 million metric tons of recycled plastic by 2025, according to an Ellen MacArthur Foundation report.
Worldwide retailer Walmart has announced a handful of new plastics recycling and waste reduction commitments.