One of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods companies will roll out a black plastic HDPE bottle that near-infrared sorters can identify.
One of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods companies will roll out a black plastic HDPE bottle that near-infrared sorters can identify.
The final stamp of approval has been given to a European Union law banning certain single-use plastic products, setting high bottle collection targets and requiring recycled content in bottles.
A project is exploring the use of chemistry to recycle polyurethane foam from a variety of durable goods into higher-end applications.
European Union leaders appear to have settled on a limit for trace amounts of flame retardants in recycled plastics. A reclaimer called the limit “workable,” but activists say it’s not nearly restrictive enough.
Multinational oil and gas company MOL Group will acquire a German recycled plastics compounder.
A PET recycling industry group gave its temporary blessing to the use shrink sleeve labels with perforations, which will assist in sorting and recycling.
Consumer packaging company Berry Global will increase its presence in the plastics recycling sector by acquiring a European reclaimer.
Now Plastics, a global film and aluminum foil supplier, is now offering packaging companies films made with post-consumer PET.
Global energy, chemicals and plastics company Total has acquired a French PP reclaimer.
In Europe, scientists say they’ve developed a fast and accurate way for near-infrared sorters to classify different plastics containing flame retardants.