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.
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.
Global chemical company Eastman has unveiled a recycling process that breaks down polymers into gases for use in chemical manufacturing. It’s now looking for suppliers.
An integrated plastics reclaimer counters claims about the non-recyclability of black plastics, and a UK company develops a more-efficient plastics-to-oil process using water.
After paper recycling companies extract fiber from cartons, they’re often left with a plastic-aluminum mix that’s sent to disposal. An Italian company has begun recycling that mix into pellets.
A project to develop depolymerization catalysts advances with support from a worldwide plastics company, and a bottled water company installs a PET recycling line.
A compounder moves further into the recycled-content space, a recycling machine is literally taken into space and a magazine piece explores black plastic recycling challenges.
Recently announced finalists in the FlexPack Recovery Challenge use a variety of recycling technologies – both mechanical and chemical – to recover an often-landfilled material.
A solvent-based process will be used to recover polymers from multi-layer flexible packaging and fiber-reinforced plastics, and sorting technologies have been installed in New Zealand’s first PET recycling plant.
Starlinger’s post-consumer PET processing lines are coming to a Pennsylvania facility, and an acrylic glass depolymerization project is launched.