Fiberon, a major end user for recovered PE, will be purchased by a publicly traded company that owns prominent home and security product brands.
Fiberon, a major end user for recovered PE, will be purchased by a publicly traded company that owns prominent home and security product brands.
Film collected by retailers could be recycled into a number of additional product types, but contamination will likely stifle end-market potential for curbside material, a report concludes.
Researchers have calculated substantial upsides from making products out of recycled PET, HDPE and PP instead of prime plastics.
In one Chicago recycling facility, natural and colored HDPE are being picked from the residential recyclables mix with the latest sorting technology: a robot with artificial intelligence.
Indorama Ventures has acquired a French PET and HDPE reclaimer, making it the latest prime plastics giant to step further into the recycling space.
Two plastics recycling company executives will spend two years in prison for their involvement in a scheme to buy and recycle stolen Postal Service plastic pallets.
Ecoplast operates a plastics processing plant in Wildon, Austria. Credit: Ecoplast
Virgin resin giant Borealis will purchase a European plastics reclaimer, the latest move by the prime plastics maker to extend its recycling presence.
A scientific panel in Europe has greenlighted a number of processes and technologies for recycling post-consumer plastics into food packaging.
North Carolina-based Plastic Revolutions is expanding to separate certain resins from mixed plastic bales, a response to growing supply as China’s import policies take hold.
The QCP recycled plastics facility in the Netherlands is now partially owned by prime plastic producer LyondellBasell.
LyondellBasell, one of biggest plastic and chemical companies on the planet, has stepped into the plastics recycling sector for the first time. A high-level executive recently explained what drove the decision.