Oregon’s environmental agency has released research that suggests several popular packaging attributes – including “recyclable” and “recycled content” – do not consistently result in lower-impact products.
Oregon’s environmental agency has released research that suggests several popular packaging attributes – including “recyclable” and “recycled content” – do not consistently result in lower-impact products.
The U.S. PET bottle recycling rate inched upward to 29.2 percent last year.
Scientists in Singapore have found another potential use for post-consumer PET bottles: aerogels.
Yale University researchers estimate 32 million metric tons of plastic were landfilled in the U.S. in 2015, significantly more than the estimates from federal officials.
Some beverage brand owners are moving toward 100 percent RPET bottles, but one of the country’s largest PET reclaimers says the magic number may be half that amount.
When a vehicle enters the end-of-life stream, its metals will probably be recovered. But the plastics are likely headed to landfill, despite the fact that many of them are high-value, high-performance polymers.
The national plastics recycling rate fell slightly from 2014 to 2015, as the country recycled less but generated more of the material, according to the U.S. EPA.
Projects advancing recovery of difficult-to-recycle plastics will receive funding through a federal initiative to support U.S. manufacturing and energy efficiency.
A sample of products containing bromine, as found by researchers.
A researcher has found black plastics from electronics are being recycled into a variety of household applications, despite still containing additives that he says could be hazardous.
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MRFF has found a MRF.
The Materials Recovery for the Future (MRFF) project will partner with a Pennsylvania sorting facility to generate bales of flexible plastic packaging (FPP). Continue Reading