A Canadian community removes EPS from its curbside recycling program, and Greenpeace offers the soda industry a big thorn and a little rose over its plastic usage.
Plastic film recycling reached a new high in 2015, but less rigid plastic was recycled than in years prior, according to the American Chemistry Council. The group released two market reports at the Plastics Recycling 2017 conference this week.
During a conference call with investors, leaders at Trex touched on the company’s newly launched pellet business and other offerings outside the recycled decking space.
China’s three-month-old import action has stalled shipments of some recovered plastics from the U.S. and led to substantial import fee increases.
Plentiful supply of curbside HDPE bales in the Southeast and U.S. Gulf Coast area pushed prices lower in mid-May as suppliers sought to move their rising inventories.
Through the first three months of 2017, exports of recovered plastics were up 21 percent compared with 2016.
Price for recycled acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) have been rebounding in May, supported by tighter supply.
Virgin and recycled PP prices will likely remain above historical averages until additional prime PP capacity comes on-line in the next couple of years, a markets forecasting expert said.
Demand for HDPE scrap bales retreated a bit in early April following a mid-March surge. This lackluster demand, coupled with rising bale supply from major population centers, drove scrap prices lower.
Trina Matta, Sustainable Packaging Coalition
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