Canada’s largest city conducted a pilot project last year to find a consistent outlet for densified foam polystyrene. The effort reached a clear conclusion, but it wasn’t good news.
Canada’s largest city conducted a pilot project last year to find a consistent outlet for densified foam polystyrene. The effort reached a clear conclusion, but it wasn’t good news.
A Canadian company that recycle EPS via a dissolution process has raised millions of dollars to help it scale up.
Global petrochemicals company Total has partnered with a startup that dissolves and recovers EPS for recycling. Officials from both companies recently provided more details about the deal.
A rendering of the future plant in Terneuzen, The Netherlands.
Stakeholders are getting closer to building a facility to recycle PS foam building insulation containing flame retardants.
California officials will slow their process of crafting mandatory recycling rules for plastic packaging, citing upheavals caused by China’s import restrictions.
The facility of Tigard, Ore.-based Agilyx, which processes polystyrene and recently entered a partnership with virgin plastics maker Ineos Styrolution.
Major prime plastics producers have recently made moves to embrace cutting-edge recycling technologies, including applying depolymerization to challenging plastics streams.
City leaders have voted to prohibit Baltimore restaurants from providing expanded polystyrene foodservice items.
The world’s largest restaurant operator will increase access to recycling at its food establishments and make packaging changes to lessen environmental impacts.
Unless you’re buying seafood (and maybe not even then) fishy smelling food and drink packaging isn’t going to fly. A project in Europe is working to deodorize EPS from fish boxes so they can be recycled into new food-contact products.
Polystyrene producer INEOS Styrolution has recently partnered with a pair of companies that are developing emerging chemical PS recycling processes. An INEOS executive said the activity is the first step toward what partners hope will be a full-scale polystyrene recycling consortium.