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.
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.
During the past year, the national average price of post-consumer PET beverage bottles and jars rose steadily by 68 percent, from 8.6 cents per pound in March 2016 to the current 14.5 cents per pound.
