Europe has laid out its legislative and long-term policy blueprint on waste and recycling, with big changes in store for plastics recycling. Continue Reading
Europe has laid out its legislative and long-term policy blueprint on waste and recycling, with big changes in store for plastics recycling. Continue Reading
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation recently honored a team at the University of Pittsburgh and an R&D company called Aronax Technologies Spain for their work improving the mechanical recyclability of flexible packaging for food.
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According to one product manufacturer’s analysis, HDPE can be shredded, melted and molded into products 10 times before its quality is compromised.
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A Spanish plastics research institute has begun work on two recycling initiatives. One effort will target floating ocean plastics, and the other will recycle PE and EPS generated by businesses.
Major brands fund a recycling outreach campaign to thousands of students, and prices increase for recovered PET and HDPE.
With a new strategy to tackle plastics, the European Commission says it has the recycling industry’s back.
An integrated processing, consulting and testing company has launched a service to help brand owners develop recycling-friendly plastic packaging.
Unless you’re buying seafood (and maybe not even then) fishy smelling food and drink packaging isn’t going to fly. A project in Europe is working to deodorize EPS from fish boxes so they can be recycled into new food-contact products.
Two industry groups have released reports examining plastic packaging recycling in Europe and where it’s headed.
The first workshop for the DEMETO project, held Sept. 28 in Brussels.
The European Union will invest millions of euros into advancing a microwave depolymerization technology for PET container scrap and polyester in discarded textiles.