Intuition says making products from recycled plastic is better for the environment than using virgin plastic. A recent study puts hard numbers to that understanding.
Intuition says making products from recycled plastic is better for the environment than using virgin plastic. A recent study puts hard numbers to that understanding.
Envision Plastics has had success integrating marine plastics into the supply chain. But if more brand owners don’t step up to purchase the material, the whole effort may have to scale back, an executive at the reclaimer said.
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.
Fiberon, a major end user for recovered PE, will be purchased by a publicly traded company that owns prominent home and security product brands.
Researchers have calculated substantial upsides from making products out of recycled PET, HDPE and PP instead of prime plastics.
Indorama Ventures has acquired a French PET and HDPE reclaimer, making it the latest prime plastics giant to step further into the recycling space.
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.
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.
After producing 150,000 shampoo bottles made partially with recovered marine plastics, Procter & Gamble will now do the same thing with 320,000 dish soap containers.
A scientific panel in Europe has greenlighted a number of processes and technologies for recycling post-consumer plastics into food packaging.