Retail giant invests in recycling technology providers
The parent of global retailer IKEA has invested in a pair of European companies developing cutting-edge plastics recycling technologies. Ingka...
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Loop and Thyssenkrupp sign partnership deal
Two companies are working together to develop standalone plants where scrap PET can be chemically broken down and then re-polymerized...
Equipment Spotlight: Nitrogen-assisted PET cleaning
A new PET recycling system combines decontamination approaches from two different European equipment providers. Austria-based Erema and and Switzerland-headquartered Polymetrix...
Plastic bottle recycling has another ‘difficult year’
The weight of plastic bottles collected for recycling continued to decrease in the U.S. in 2017, contributing to the third...
Coca-Cola provides loan to advance PET recycling tech
One of the world's largest beverage companies will lend money to a Dutch startup that is commercializing a PET depolymerization...
Nestlé Waters will quadruple recycled plastic usage
A major brand owner says it will be using 25 percent recycled plastic in the packaging for all of its...
Growing PET reclaimer to supply Coca-Cola bottlers
PET recycling startup Loop Industries has inked another deal with a global food and beverage brand. The Terrebonne, Quebec company...
PET bottle recycling rate rises
The U.S. PET bottle recycling rate inched upward to 29.2 percent last year. That rate was up from 28.4 percent...
How technology is helping carpet processor roll forward
A facility in California is using a unique rotary impact separation technology to break carpet into its components so plastics...
PET recycling processes get food-contact OKs
A PET recycling process using infrared radiation to help decontaminate flakes was one of several recent technologies that received a...
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