Virgin plastics company Equipolymers will sell a food-grade PET made with 25 percent chemically recycled plastic.
Virgin plastics company Equipolymers will sell a food-grade PET made with 25 percent chemically recycled plastic.
The Mondi pouch with removable panels.
Brand owners and packaging providers have rolled out innovative replacements for difficult-to-recycle multi-layer plastic packaging.
A dairy products company has begun using a black colorant in yogurt tub lids that allows optical sorters to correctly identify the polymer type and color.
A brand owner has announced it will use a shrink sleeve label that detaches during the bottle wash cycle at plastics recycling facilities.
A project seeks to inspire improvements in PA and PU recycling, ocean plastics make their way into surfboards, and a depolymerization startup inks a deal with PepsiCo.
When it comes to chemical recycling techniques for scrap polystyrene, some companies break the plastic down into its component monomers, and others dissolve it without cutting the polymer chains.
A depolymerization technology firm has landed an RPET sales deal with one of the world’s largest food and drink companies.
Two Canadian depolymerization startups recently signed significant deals to advance commercialization of their technologies.
Film collected by retailers could be recycled into a number of additional product types, but contamination will likely stifle end-market potential for curbside material, a report concludes.
A global flexible packaging producer has partnered with a German recycling technology company to process multi-layer film scrap via a solvent-based technique.