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From Resource Recycling
April 17
PMMI is establishing the PACK gives BACK Charitable Foundation, backed by an initial $6 million investment from PMMI’s reserve fund.
The Recycled Materials Association (ReMA) elected its 2026-2028 national officers, including Andy Golding of Kripke Enterprises as chair.
April 14
Novelis extended its partnership with Norwegian beverage container foundation Infinitum.
April 9
Machinex will introduce its new AI platform at IFAT Munich 2026 next month.
April 6
The Glass Recycling Foundation will host a workshop on April 15, to help with applications for its next grant cycle May 11-July 10.
April 3
AMP Robotics increased the processing capacity of its Portsmouth facility in Virginia to 108,000 tons/year of municipal solid waste.
Wet processing equipment manufacturer CDE Group named Chad Greenfield as vice president of sales for North and Latin America.
From Plastics Recycling Update
April 16
Elipso, the French packaging manufacturers association, accused resin producers Ineos, LyondellBasell, Sabic and Indorama of “abusive” force majeure declarations and “speculative” price increases.
April 14
The American Chemistry Council and Plastics Industry Association hosted a joint legislative fly-in to Washington, DC, April 13-15.
Dow COO Karen Carter is succeeding CEO Jim Fitterling, who will remain as the executive chair of the company’s board of directors.
April 9
Recycling startup Aduro Clean Technologies awarded the permitting contract for its Dutch project to Ebert HERA.
The Plastics Industry Association redesigned its Recycling is Real website.
Republic Services expanded capacity at the Peabody Recycling Center near Boston.
April 7
The School of Packaging at Michigan State University received a $47 million gift from Chuck and Jackie Frasier.
April 3
Carbio pushed the expected startup of its PET recycling plant in Longlaville, France, to first-half 2028.
Film recycler Charter Next Generation appointed Mark Howell as executive vice president of sales, to accelerate the company’s commercial strategy and growth.
Martin Vogt, president and CEO of EFS-Plastics, received the Sustainability Award from Canadian Plastics.
Unilever is cleaving off its foods division and combining the segment with spice giant McCormick to create a major global foods business, with the transaction expected to close in mid-2027.
April 2
India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change raised the recycled-content mandate for food packaging to 40% effective April 1.
Nova Chemicals is now Borouge International, following its combination with Borealis and Borouge, with new 50:50 ownership under XRG (the investment arm of the Saudi state-owned energy major ADNOC) and Austria’s OMV.
From E-Scrap News
April 15
TSR Group and chemicals giant BASF are partnering to advance recycling of EV batteries in Europe.
April 14
UK-based DEScycle is collaborating with Cisco to process electronic scrap boards derived from Cisco hardware to evaluate batch-scale performance, generate recovery data and provide analysis.
Gov. Andy Beshear signed a voluntary battery EPR into law in Kentucky.
April 3
Gov. Tony Evers signed battery EPR into law in Wisconsin.
April 2
Device protection company Assurant is partnering in April with AT&T for a second year of the “Tree for Trade-in” program, which supports the Arbor Day Foundation’s forest restoration work in areas of California impacted by wildfires.
The European Electronics Recyclers Association (EERA) named Vanya Veras as its new secretary general, succeeding Julie-Ann Adams.
