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Dow signs supply agreement with pyrolysis startup

Published: September 5, 2019
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Dow has a goal of incorporating at least 100,000 metric tons of recycled plastics into its product offerings sold in the European Union by 2025. | Richard Frazier/Shutterstock

Dow has become the latest virgin plastics company to announce it will offer products derived from a chemical recycling technology.

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State lawmakers give chemical recycling a boost

Published: August 21, 2019
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Ohio lawmakers recently passed a bill codifying a number of definitions related to chemical recycling. | Paul Brady Photography/Shutterstock

The sixth- and seventh-largest states in the country recently approved legislation that could help operators using pyrolysis and other technologies.

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A startup, Sabic and IBM all push chemical recycling

Published: July 31, 2019
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Scientist working on plastics recycling.

IBM has a goal to recover more PET from highly contaminated streams. | Credit: Wall Street Journal video.

Three different chemistry-based processes for recovering plastics have recently grabbed attention, illustrating the wide range of stakeholders working to find solutions beyond mechanical recycling.

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How a startup is recovering multi-layer flexible packaging

Published: July 31, 2019
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Argentina-based Arqlite’s first gravel products were sold to customers earlier this year. | Courtesy of Arqlite.

Consulting firm B-Green was helping consumer brand owners reduce waste to landfill, but the companies’ packaging lacked a diversion solution. So B-Green went to work developing a recycling technology and end product.

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PCR flows to multi-layer applications

Published: August 2, 2019
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Packaging company Mondi led a project that created a pouch made of 20% post-consumer plastic. | Courtesy of Mondi.

For years, packaging producers have been marketing recyclable multi-layer flexible packages. Now, they’re finding success using recycled plastic in their products.

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