A tech startup is developing a new product to verify trustworthiness among traders of plastic scrap and other recyclable materials.
The Plastics Recycling 2017 conference in New Orleans drew roughly 1,700 attendees and was marked by vibrant education sessions and a packed trade show.
Avangard Innovative, which for years has managed commercial recycling streams and sold scrap to manufacturers, is gearing up to play a larger role in resin production.
Nina Bellucci Butler
Moore Recycling Associates, known for its plastics recycling data analysis, will now be called More Recycling as the company founders move toward partial retirement.
A government insider says a U.K. bottle deposit is unlikely, and designers find a creative way to utilize discarded plastic bottles.
Students work to recycle PLA filament used in 3-D printing, and an Ohio plastics recycling company closes its doors after more than a decade.
Plastic products sold in California with “biodegradable” and “compostable” printed on their labels cost Walmart nearly $1 million in a settlement earlier this month.
More foam polystyrene collection centers are opening in the U.S., and a clothing company introduces a new line made from recycled ocean plastics.
Through the first three months of 2017, exports of recovered plastics were up 21 percent compared with 2016.
In the first month of 2017, the volume of exported material jumped over 35 percent compared with the same period last year.