Tag Archives: PE

Fast fashion company begins chemically recycling textiles

Published: January 29, 2025
Updated: January 29, 2025
by Colin Staub

Shein’s interest in chemical recycling comes as the company works toward a goal to increase annual recycled polyester use from 7.9% to 31% in its apparel by 2030. | Graffitimi/Shutterstock

Editor’s note: Learn more about textile recycling and many other topics at the upcoming Textile Recovery Summit, part of the 2025 Plastics Recycling Conference on March 24-26 in National Harbor, Maryland.

Global clothing e-commerce retailer Shein has developed a chemical recycling process alongside a Chinese research university and is planning to start up a facility in June, producing 6.6 million pounds per year of chemically recycled polyester for use in its apparel. Continue Reading

Posted in News, Top stories | Tagged chemical recycling, PE |

Azek plans to continue recycled content growth

Published: December 5, 2023
Updated: December 5, 2023
by Colin Staub

Azek uses an average of 85% recycled content in its TimberTech Composite Decking. | Photo courtesy Azek

Recycled plastic end user Azek reported higher sales of its residential products in the 2023 fiscal year, a category that includes decking and trim made from recycled PE and PVC. The company also reported increasing its use of recycled plastic throughout 2023. Continue Reading

Posted in News, Top stories | Tagged markets, PE, PVC |

NOVA Chemicals plans large film recycling plant

Published: July 18, 2023
Updated: July 18, 2023
by Jared Paben

NOVA Chemicals’ film recycling facility will occupy 450,000 square feet of a 1.7-million-foot building in Connersville, Ind. | Courtesy of NOVA Chemicals

Plastic resin giant NOVA Chemicals will build a large PE film recycling facility in Indiana. The facility will be operated by film specialist Novolex. Continue Reading

Posted in News, Top stories | Tagged film, PE, processors |

Petrochem company sets recycled resin goal for PE

Published: March 28, 2023
Updated: March 28, 2023
by Marissa Heffernan

The push to sell more recycled PE is part of NOVA’s broader initiative to reduce CO2 emissions. | Photo Courtesy of NOVA Chemicals

NOVA Chemicals is looking to increase the amount of recycled PE it sells, improve its mechanical recycling capabilities and further explore chemical recycling technologies. Continue Reading

Posted in News, Top stories | Tagged chemical recycling, PE, processors |

Amcor signs PCR offtake deal with ExxonMobil

Published: December 6, 2022
Updated: December 6, 2022
by Jared Paben

Amcor and ExxonMobil leaders sign an agreement.

Michael Zamora, senior vice president of Product Solutions at ExxonMobil, and Ron Delia, CEO at Amcor, signed the agreement, through which ExxonMobil will sell increasing amounts of recycled resin each year to Amcor. | Courtesy of Amcor

One of the world’s largest packaging producers, Amcor, has signed a deal to buy huge amounts of chemically recycled resin from one of the world’s largest plastics producers, ExxonMobil.

Posted in News, Top stories | Tagged chemical recycling, converters, markets, PE |

Canadian chemical company unveils 100% recycled PE resin

Published: October 25, 2022
Updated: October 25, 2022
by Marissa Heffernan

Bag made with NOVA Chemicals recycled resin.

For NOVA Chemicals’ latest recycled resin product, PE is sourced from distribution center flexible film, a blend of back-of-store stretch and front-of-store consumer drop-off. | Courtesy of NOVA Chemicals

NOVA Chemicals launched a 100% mechanically recycled PE resin for use in films such as shrink, e-commerce, heavy-duty sacks and protective packaging.

Posted in News | Tagged film, PE |

California’s PCR crunch ‘just the beginning’

Published: April 20, 2022
Updated: April 21, 2022
by Marissa Heffernan

To meet California’s 15% PCR rate by 2022, U.S. reclaimers need an aggregate additional output of 800,000 tons of food-grade post-consumer PET and PE. | monticello/Shutterstock

A report from Independent Commodity Intelligence Services found that there’s not enough post-consumer resin in the U.S. market to meet California’s mandates, and there are more state mandates coming on-line soon.

Posted in News | Tagged legislation, markets, PE, PET |

PE film recycler reports higher profits in 2021

Published: March 7, 2022
Updated: March 7, 2022
by Jared Paben

Trex reported total sales revenues of $1.2 billion last year, up 36% from the year before. | Vojtaz/Shutterstock

Trex, which recycles over 350 million pounds of PE film scrap a year, dramatically boosted its sales and profits in 2021.

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Trex CEO: Recycled plastic demand will stay strong

Published: September 29, 2021
Updated: September 29, 2021
by Colin Staub

Trex product installed in residential yard.

Trex brings in plastic from multiple sources, primarily material coming out of commercial and industrial environments. | Courtesy of Trex

The leader of composite decking manufacturer Trex shared insights on recycled polyethylene markets and sourcing channels in an interview this week.

Posted in News, Top stories | Tagged converters, film, PE |

Turkey reverses ban on scrap plastic imports

Published: July 14, 2021
Updated: July 14, 2021
by Colin Staub

Istanbul-Turkey-port-gd_project-Shutterstock

Early this month, Turkey’s ban on scrap PE imports went into effect. But just days later, the government repealed the regulation. | gd_project / Shutterstock

Shortly after barring recovered PE from import into the country, Turkey’s government has repealed the ban and implemented an enhanced licensing system instead.

Posted in News | Tagged exports, PE |