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How sorting upgrades made a contaminant a product

Published: March 6, 2024
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Rumpke’s new Columbus, Ohio MRF is key to a partnership with Eastman Chemical that will create an end market for opaque PET materials, among other hard-to-recycle products. | Courtesy of Rumpke

A partnership between midwest recycling processor Rumpke and resin giant Eastman Chemical will create an end market for opaque and otherwise hard-to-recycle PET materials, driven by state-of-the-art sortation capabilities at Rumpke’s Columbus, Ohio MRF.

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PET rodent cage processor recycled 1.2M pounds in 2023

Published: January 30, 2024
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Innocycle shreds and washes used PET cages at its California reclamation plant. | Photo courtesy Innocycle.

Innovive, a U.S. manufacturer of single-use plastic cages for mice and rats in laboratories, has scaled up its recycling operations in recent years, nearly doubling its annual processing capacity since 2020 and building an in-house reclamation center in Sacramento, California. Continue Reading

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Sprite to ditch sleeve labels in UK trial

Published: January 30, 2024
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Coca‑Cola is running a small pilot program to see if engraving product information directly onto bottles could replace labels on drink bottles. | DenisMArt/Shutterstock

In a trial project aiming to simplify recycling and reduce the use of material, Coca‑Cola will temporarily remove labels from some Sprite go bottles in the UK and instead use label engraving. Continue Reading

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Republic to supply PET to emerging end user Circularix

Published: January 17, 2024
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Republic Services’s new Polymer Center will supply post-consumer PET flake to Circularix for use in food-grade recycled packaging. | Aykut Erdogdu/Shutterstock

Post-consumer PET packaging supplier Circularix will buy PET flake from new plastics processing facilities recently unveiled by Republic Services, one of the largest haulers in the U.S. Continue Reading

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ALPLA boosts processing volume to meet 2025 resin goal

Published: January 17, 2024
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ALPLA Group processed 386,000 short tons of recycled resin in-house in 2023, double what it processed two years prior, and more investments are planned. | Alenka2194/Shutterstock

Global packaging giant ALPLA Group says it is ramping up its processing of recycled PET and HDPE as it nears a target year for its voluntary recycled content goals. Continue Reading

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Hawaiian bottle-to-bottle plant in the works

Published: January 3, 2024
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A local producer of 100% recycled PET water bottles is bringing in-state bottle processing capacity to Hawaii. | Courtesy of Waiākea Water

Waiākea Inc., a producer of 100% recycled PET bottles for water sourced from an active volcano, is installing bottle-to-bottle processing equipment at its Hilo, Hawaii facility with a planned capacity of 52 million pounds per year. Continue Reading

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Data quantifies progress on plastic recycling

Published: January 3, 2024
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Nine large companies that are part of World Wildlife Fund’s ReSource: Plastic project reported that they increased their average use of recycled plastic from 10.2% in 2021 to 12.0% in 2022. | David Gyung/Shutterstock

Some of the largest brand owners slightly increased the amount of recycled plastic they used globally in 2022. And in the U.S., end market demand for RPET grew notably last year, even as bottle collection slipped. Continue Reading

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Loan helps packaging supplier Pinnpack boost capacity

Published: January 3, 2024
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Pinnpack, formerly owned by CarbonLite, will significantly increase its processing capacity with help from the loan. | Millenius/Shutterstock

The state of California provided a $3.5 million loan to an RPET thermoform manufacturer to help it triple its production capacity and decrease employee headcount, according to state records.  Continue Reading

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