PET and HDPE bales are fetching lower prices than they were a month ago, but PP and high-grade film have shown stability.
PET and HDPE bales are fetching lower prices than they were a month ago, but PP and high-grade film have shown stability.
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.