Sonoco has pledged to boost the post-consumer content in its plastics packaging to 25% by 2025. | Janthiwa Sutthiboriban/Shutterstock
A packaging giant has notched upward the amount of RPET it uses in its food containers.
Sonoco has pledged to boost the post-consumer content in its plastics packaging to 25% by 2025. | Janthiwa Sutthiboriban/Shutterstock
A packaging giant has notched upward the amount of RPET it uses in its food containers.
IBM has a goal to recover more PET from highly contaminated streams. | Credit: Wall Street Journal video.
Three different chemistry-based processes for recovering plastics have recently grabbed attention, illustrating the wide range of stakeholders working to find solutions beyond mechanical recycling.
A market analyst projects that PET collection rates in the U.S. would need to double to provide enough supply for consumer goods companies to meet their goals. | Myibean/Shutterstock
Market analysts say PET collection rates are insufficient to reach the amount of material brand owners will need to hit their recycled-content objectives.
A new PET recycling system combines decontamination approaches from two different European equipment providers.
The PC400 plastic crusher from Widesky Machinery provides size reduction for scrap plastics with a focus on beverage containers.
If PET is PET is PET to a standard optical sorter, Tomra’s new Sharp Eye technology isn’t standard.
For more than two decades, Erema’s Laserfilter has been used to remove contaminants from polyolefin melt streams. A year ago, the company released a PET version, and the market interest has been strong, according to the Austria-headquartered company.
A crystallization dryer from EREMA allows PET reclaimers to retrofit their existing lines to sell into the higher-value food and drink packaging sectors.
Coca-Cola will invest more than $19 million in a PET recycling facility in the Philippines, marking the company’s first plastics recycling operation in Southeast Asia.
Brands across the globe are announcing goals to use high levels of recycled plastic. But the companies that actually deliver PCR to the market are predicting a major hurdle: supply shortfalls.