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The latest plastics recycling news

Growing PET reclaimer to supply Coca-Cola bottlers
PET recycling startup Loop Industries has inked another deal with a global food and beverage brand.
How a materials recovery facility will sort flexible plastics
Flexible packaging isn’t going away anytime soon, and an upcoming pilot project seeks to ensure it doesn’t go to landfill.
Prime giant to install pyrolysis plant
SABIC, one of the world’s largest chemicals producers, will install a demonstration unit to recycle mixed plastics into feedstock for crackers.
CalRecycle: Trio carried out $16 million deposit fraud
Authorities have seized thousands of pounds of beverage containers and made multiple arrests in an alleged scheme to defraud the container deposit program in California.
Our top stories from November 2018
Articles about the U.S. PET recycling rate and a reclaimer’s expansion took top positions on last month’s readership list.
Report: Traders fudging paperwork to skirt import limits
Southeast Asian countries are moving to constrain imports of recyclables, but some exporters are mislabeling scrap plastic shipments to get around the restrictions.
Export markets roundup: Barriers across the Pacific
Taiwan becomes the latest Asian country to restrict recyclables imports, and China confirms post-industrial plastic will be banned from import at the end of the year.