At least three critical issues confront the European PET recycling market, and one of them is having a profound impact on HDPE recovery.
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At least three critical issues confront the European PET recycling market, and one of them is having a profound impact on HDPE recovery.
Samples provided by Cadel Deinking show (from left to right) fluff, deinked fluff, deinked pellets and film.
A Spanish company is rolling out a deinking technology capable of removing pigments from a variety of recovered resins, a step that eases processing and boosts value.
The aqua-colored PET bottle at right has been marked with a chemical marker, as part of the Polymark project.
Water bottles that glow under UV light might sound like just the latest rave fad, but the technology could actually hold the key to boosting recycled content in food packaging.
Dow Chemical Co. says its new compatibilizer allows reclaimers to get improved properties from PE-PP mixes, making it possible to move the material into higher-value applications.
When it comes to its moniker, a key plastics recycling group hopes less is more. The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers is now the Association of Plastic Recyclers.
The overall recycling rate for PET containers rose incrementally in 2012 while domestic demand for recycled PET (rPET) continued to trump supply. Those are the takeaways from the “Report on Postconsumer Recycling Activity in 2012,” released today by the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) and The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR).
The Closed Loop Fund is nearly three years into its mission of funding recycling infrastructure across the U.S., and it has invested about a fifth of its hefty budget during that time.
It’s official: The Recycling Organizations of North America (RONA) and the National Recycling Coalition (NRC) are joining forces.
Researchers have developed fluorescent coating that could allow for fast, automated sorting of food-contact PET from non-food-contact PET in mixed recycling streams.
A European trade group delves into PET thermoform recycling, and a government report in Australia calls for major steps to curb marine plastic pollution.