The parent of global retailer IKEA has invested in a pair of European companies developing cutting-edge plastics recycling technologies.
The parent of global retailer IKEA has invested in a pair of European companies developing cutting-edge plastics recycling technologies.
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.
A major brand owner says it will be using 25 percent recycled plastic in the packaging for all of its U.S. products in three years.
PET recycling startup Loop Industries has inked another deal with a global food and beverage brand.
A facility in California is using a unique rotary impact separation technology to break carpet into its components so plastics and calcium carbonate can be efficiently recovered.
Scientists in Singapore have found another potential use for post-consumer PET bottles: aerogels.
A PET recycling process using infrared radiation to help decontaminate flakes was one of several recent technologies that received a green light from a European review body.
Nestlé Waters North America has signed a pre-buy agreement with CarbonLite, deepening its already entwined relationship with the PET reclaimer.
The U.S. PET bottle recycling rate inched upward to 29.2 percent last year.
Virgin plastics company Equipolymers will sell a food-grade PET made with 25 percent chemically recycled plastic.