A new recycling line will help produce food-contact RPET from just about the dirtiest source around: bottles picked from landfills.
A new recycling line will help produce food-contact RPET from just about the dirtiest source around: bottles picked from landfills.
Global apparel company H&M used the equivalent of 325 million PET bottles in its recycled polyester last year, substantially up from the year before.
In coming years, recycled PET and polyolefins will likely have to continue competing with cheap virgin plastics. But scrap markets will also be impacted by uncertain government policies and brand owner decisions.
A PET recycling industry group gave its temporary blessing to the use shrink sleeve labels with perforations, which will assist in sorting and recycling.
TruClean’s anti-static properties are demonstrated in a Unifi video.
A major consumer of U.S. PET bales has unveiled three products made with recycled polyester and nylon.
Polychem, a manufacturer of recycled polyester strapping, has been purchased by a private equity firm.
Now Plastics, a global film and aluminum foil supplier, is now offering packaging companies films made with post-consumer PET.
PET reclaimer Loop Industries has settled a longstanding lawsuit concerning the company’s stock. Meanwhile, the business recently sold millions of dollars worth of stock to an unnamed institutional investor.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave a New England plastics reclaimer the thumbs up to recycle a polyolefin blend for use in cutlery and food packaging.
Higher recovered PET prices pinched profits for recycled polyester fiber manufacturer Unifi last fall.