As a Baltimore-area plastics recovery facility ramps up to full production, a project leader discusses the plastics currently entering and leaving the building. Continue Reading
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As a Baltimore-area plastics recovery facility ramps up to full production, a project leader discusses the plastics currently entering and leaving the building. Continue Reading
Projects that improve polypropylene packaging recovery are eligible for substantial financial support from the Closed Loop Fund.
Unilever thinks the key to tackling multi-material flexible packaging waste may be to dissolve, separate and precipitate its PE content so it can be recycled. The giant brand owner plans to test the approach at a facility in East Java, Indonesia.
When added to recycled plastic melt streams, a specially designed particle can break up and scatter contaminants, boost throughputs and help disperse other additives, according to the product’s developer.
Greg Janson of plastics reclaimer QRS Recycling knows all too well what happens when material suppliers aren’t informed about load quality.
As Loop Industries pushes forward its depolymerization method on multi-layer packaging, the startup is also highlighting the potential of recycling opaque PET containers and textiles.
Separation equipment from SICON aims to facilitate increased recovery of valuable raw materials from mixed thermoplastic streams.
MBA Polymers’ U.K. and China operations have been sold to a German equity fund, and the plastics reclaimer’s Austrian branch has been bought out by its longtime co-owner.
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A viable end market is crucial to effective materials recovery, and in the plastics realm, those downstream uses are growing increasingly diverse.
RES Polyflow’s Michael Dungan says fluctuating oil prices and developments in Asia will continue to affect pyrolysis companies, but he thinks a bigger issue may be a regulatory landscape that he believes is dated and detrimental to technology adoption.