After years of testing, car giant GM has begun recycling water bottles into a variety of products.
After years of testing, car giant GM has begun recycling water bottles into a variety of products.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has organized a major plastics circular economy effort, and Dr Pepper Snapple shareholders continue to resist recycled-content goals.
Europe’s PET trade group reports on efforts to boost thermoform recycling, and Tomra wins an award in China for its advanced flake sortation technology.
China’s Green Fence import crackdown made it more difficult – and less profitable – for FCM Recycling to ship e-scrap plastics to Asia. So the Canadian electronics recycling company went into the plastics recycling business.
A European Union panel has approved the use of Starlinger de-contamination technology to recycle post-consumer PET into 100 percent-recycled-content food and beverage packaging.
A European scientific panel has given its approval to a pair of industry proposals related to recycling PET into food packaging.
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A production line at GreenMantra Technology’s wax plant in Brantford, Ontario.
Through its use of a catalyst in a patented process, a Canadian company is recycling PE and PP into a variety of industrial waxes.
A California company using a silicone-based additive in the creation of food-contact-approved recycled PET is expanding production to Indiana.
How successful are existing sortation systems at separating flexible packaging? New research aims to answer that question.
Dow Chemical Co. has developed an advanced barrier pouch with an embedded compatibilizer, allowing the EVOH/PE packaging to be recycled in traditional PE streams.