Higher recovered PET prices pinched profits for recycled polyester fiber manufacturer Unifi last fall.
Higher recovered PET prices pinched profits for recycled polyester fiber manufacturer Unifi last fall.
BHS equipment in CarbonLITE’s Dallas PET recycling facility.
Bulk Handling Systems will provide robots and other sorting innovations for an upcoming PET recycling plant in Pennsylvania.
Intuition says making products from recycled plastic is better for the environment than using virgin plastic. A recent study puts hard numbers to that understanding.
Resin producer DAK Americas will acquire Perpetual Recycling Solutions’ PET recycling facility in Richmond, Ind., the latest move in a trend of virgin resin companies deepening their involvement in the recycling industry.
An Indorama Ventures executive says converging factors have led to growing recycled plastic demand, which is key to the resin maker’s acquisition of reclaimer Custom Polymers PET.
Well over half of PET bottles sold in Europe were collected for recycling in 2017, according to an industry survey.
The parent of global retailer IKEA has invested in a pair of European companies developing cutting-edge plastics recycling technologies.
Two companies are working together to develop standalone plants where scrap PET can be chemically broken down and then re-polymerized into new resin.
A new PET recycling system combines decontamination approaches from two different European equipment providers.
The weight of plastic bottles collected for recycling continued to decrease in the U.S. in 2017, contributing to the third straight year of a declining recycling rate.