A Netherlands-based plastics recycling company has been acquired by two large European companies involved in virgin plastic production and waste hauling.
A Netherlands-based plastics recycling company has been acquired by two large European companies involved in virgin plastic production and waste hauling.
Over the past month, recovered PET and film values have fallen, but HDPE grades have seen slight increases.
A plastics recycling giant in Alabama will likely be significantly increasing its output of recycled natural HDPE after receiving a letter of no objection (LNO) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
P&G, Coca-Cola and a handful of other major companies have committed to using products containing post-consumer resin in a range of storage and shipping applications, as part of a new program from the Association of Plastic Recyclers.
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.
Prices for post-consumer PET and HDPE containers have remained relatively steady lately, though film values have declined.
Nina Bellucci Butler speaks at the Resource Recycling Conference.
U.S. and Canadian end users could consume more of the recovered plastics generated domestically if prices and specifications meet their needs. But a handful of converging market trends are standing in the way of significant growth.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow recycled PET fiber to be used to make tea bags, fruit or meat packaging and more. It also gave the go-ahead to use recycled plastics in several types of thermoform packaging.
Recycling processors report that early September pricing for recovered plastic packaging rose slightly over August levels.
