A small Midwest town is slated to welcome a plastics-to-fuel facility converting up to 100,000 tons of mixed plastics per year into gasoline and diesel fuels.
A new group in Europe is working to build a demonstration plant to recycle EPS building insulation containing a brominated flame retardant.
After banning imports of plastic scrap earlier this year, the Indian government has decided to allow exceptions under specific circumstances.
A Chicago man who who provided a free polystyrene collection service has been forced to end operations.
Instead of separating fiber and PE, two British companies are producing a mixed PE-fiber recycled resin, and the growing potential for rPET in nonwoven fabrics is explored.
In one section of Georgia, it’s getting easier to recycle a variety of polystyrene products.
A European Union panel approved a pair of proposals that bring recovered material into plastic food and beverage packaging.
The City of Redding, Calif., will soon add a densifier to its recycling facility, allowing residents to drop off foam polystyrene for processing. The City will use grant money from the Foam Recycling Coalition to make the purchase.
Oregon-based company Agilyx will build a system capable of extracting styrene monomers from PS.
Researchers have launched a project to measure the depth of demand for post-consumer recycled plastics in the U.S. and Canada. Continue Reading