
A rendering of the future plant in Terneuzen, The Netherlands.
Stakeholders are getting closer to building a facility to recycle PS foam building insulation containing flame retardants.
A rendering of the future plant in Terneuzen, The Netherlands.
Stakeholders are getting closer to building a facility to recycle PS foam building insulation containing flame retardants.
A scientific panel in Europe has greenlighted a number of processes and technologies for recycling post-consumer plastics into food packaging.
Two equipment companies will demonstrate an inline system capable of taking PET bottle flake through to sheet.
The first Plastics Recycling Awards Europe honored people and products advancing plastics recycling.
Chinese officials have accused the U.S. of hypocrisy for denigrating the scrap imports ban amid a brewing trade war between the two nations.
Leaders across the pond have announced they will roll out a deposit program covering certain plastic, glass and metal beverage containers.
A project in the European Union seeks to replace aluminum and other barrier materials in multi-layer films with recyclable bio-derived polymer coatings.
This story originally appeared in the May 2016 issue of Plastics Recycling Update.
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Clarissa Morawski
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