German company Neue Herbold has re-engineered a plastics pulverizer machine to increase throughput without using more energy.
German company Neue Herbold has re-engineered a plastics pulverizer machine to increase throughput without using more energy.
Two midsize jurisdictions are joining a program that collects plastics not currently accepted for recycling and sends them to energy recovery facilities. However, an environmental group is speaking out against the development.
A new manufacturer with ties to QRS Recycling will begin making recycled-plastic railroad ties in St. Louis.
Wheels are in motion to resume operations at an idled plastics recycling facility outside Baltimore. But if it does start up again, it will do so without one of its original partners.
Avangard Innovative recently installed a customized recycling line at its LDPE recovery facility in Houston. The system is aimed at tackling an issue the company faced while processing commercial film: odor.
Researchers from the University of Illinois have developed a non-toxic method for recycling polycarbonate plastic, which is often used in electronics and other products but has been difficult to cost-effectively divert from the waste stream.
A pyrolysis company converting post-consumer plastics into fuels and waxes will get a big boost from British oil and gas giant BP.
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.
Part of the R&D lab at Agilyx’s Tigard, Ore. facility.
Agilyx is already processing scrap PS into a feedstock for prime plastics production. Now, the Oregon company says it can do the same thing for recovered PE and PP.
A huge PET recycling plant has begun operations in the Los Angeles area, and details have been released about equipment working in the vertically integrated facility.