Dell’s announcement that it will use HDPE recovered from Haiti’s beaches, waterways and adjacent streets in its packaging garnered headlines far and wide.
Dell’s announcement that it will use HDPE recovered from Haiti’s beaches, waterways and adjacent streets in its packaging garnered headlines far and wide.
Belgium-based industry association Petcore Europe is seeking more members to join its working group focused on the recycling of opaque and otherwise difficult-to-recycle PET packaging.
Cornell University researchers push ahead a technology that could lift PE and PP recycling, and a handful of companies targeting hard-to-recycle plastics grab attention.
A major manufacturer of recycled-content fabrics has received the go-ahead from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to create rPET for food applications.
European stakeholders are developing an innovative system to recycle plastics from cars, electronics and contaminated streams.
A nonprofit polymers R&D group announced the launch of a research project looking at boosting recycled content in food packaging.
Ikea and an Italian partner have developed a recycled PET foil, which is being used in kitchen cabinet fronts.
Labels and packaging company Avery Dennison has expanded the options available to converters and brand owners looking to put recycling-friendly pressure-sensitive labels on PET containers. Continue Reading
Unifi’s new PET recycling plant uses advanced dry de-labeling equipment and a host of optical sorters to generate a clean feedstock for fiber manufacturing. Continue Reading
Montreal-based Loop Industries is working to commercialize its heatless, pressureless PET depolymerization technology after raising millions of dollars from investors earlier this year.