Over the past two years, Coca-Cola has boosted its recycled PET production capabilities by 20 percent, opening facilities and recycling lines in nine different countries. It now uses recycled PET in 24 countries.
Over the past two years, Coca-Cola has boosted its recycled PET production capabilities by 20 percent, opening facilities and recycling lines in nine different countries. It now uses recycled PET in 24 countries.
The Southeast region has welcomed a manufacturing operation that’s hungry for recycled plastic.
Textiles-from-plastics brand Repreve has announced a $10 million expansion of its existing PET bottle recycling plant to help meet increasing demand around the globe.
The value of old milk jugs and other forms of HDPE scrap rose by more than 25 percent in recent weeks.
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Two publicly traded firms making lumber and decking materials from recycled plastic and wood had differing financial results in the quarter ending Sept. 30, 2016.
Germany increased its average recycled content in PET bottles last year, despite challenges in pricing compared with virgin plastic, according to an industry group.
A Coca-Cola bottling plant notches a high recycling rate, and a man is caught defrauding Germany’s bottle redemption program.
Soccer uniforms made of recycled ocean plastics make their Spanish debut, and a German company sees decreased demand for recycled resins.
A drugstore chain in British Columbia is ramping up its plastic film recycling efforts, and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries alters some recovered plastics specifications.
An optical sorting technology and two approaches to PET recycling are among the items we detail in this month’s look at industry-related patents.