The Recycling Partnership has identified three key initiatives to improve the current recycling system.
PET collection is lagging behind recycled resin demand by more than 1 billion pounds per year, according to a study, and investment of $500 million is needed to improve the situation.
SC Johnson and Plastic Bank have launched a three-year partnership aimed at preventing ocean plastics and fighting poverty. | Kochneva Tetyana/Shutterstock
A number of ocean plastics-related announcements have been made as the Our Ocean Conference kicks off today in Oslo, Norway.
At the APR fall meeting, roughly 250 experts gathered for committee meetings and expert presentations. | YUTHANA CHORADET NESS/Shutterstock
Plastics recycling professionals converged last week to discuss market dynamics, emerging technologies and other key industry trends.
An ISRI commissioned study found that the U.S. recycling industry directly or indirectly supports nearly 532,000 jobs. | priscilla list/Shutterstock
A recently released study estimates the U.S. recycling industry will have a nearly $110 billion economic impact this year. That’s about 6% lower than the number from two years ago.
Essel Propack created HDPE barrier tube packages that meet recyclability guidelines. | Picsfive/Shutterstock
A packaging manufacturer that specializes in tubes for toothpaste, cosmetics and other products has developed two tubes that meet recyclability guidelines.
Greenpeace has put pressure on brand owners to quit their membership in the Plastics Industry Association. | John Gomez/Shutterstock
The Plastics Industry Association’s newly hired president and CEO is pushing back against environmental group Greenpeace following news that another brand owner left the association over product-ban policy.
Investigators placed GPS tracking devices in bales of plastic. | PhilipR/Shutterstock
CBC News in Canada used tracking devices to follow where garbage and recycling companies took loads of recovered film. Much of the plastic was ultimately burned or buried.
Less plastic was recycled in Canada in 2017 compared with the previous year. Frank Middendorf/Shutterstock
Canada recycled less plastic in 2017 than it did the year before, with decreases in recovery of films, non-bottle rigids and bottles, according to an annual industry report.
Challenges remain to scaling up TPO bumper collection to a national scale. | Kaentian Street/Shutterstock
TPO bumper covers can be processed into a high-quality recycled pellet that’s cheaper than virgin plastic, but challenges remain in feedstock collection and preparation.
Photo provided by Milliken shows the results of the use of Millad NX 8000 clarifier.
A market-dominating polypropylene clarifier has undergone testing to prove that it neither complicates the plastics recycling process nor harms the finished product.