Opportunities and challenges in health care plastics recycling
Keep recycling simple and be patient with generators, because behavior change takes time and requires consistent reinforcement. That may sound...
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Recycled plastics project takes the stage at CES
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is about more than just the latest TVs, smartphones and gadgets. This year’s event also showcased...
PetroChem Wire: Recycled HoPP prices pushed down
HoPP repro and regrind prices fell last week on an oversupply of recyclable post-industrial and post-consumer PP scrap in many...
Research examines barriers to using recycled content in food packaging
A research project explored the use of potentially contaminated recycled content materials behind barriers in food packaging. The conclusion: We're...
EU panel considers sunflower seeds in packaging, other requests
A European Union panel approved a pair of proposals that bring recovered material into plastic food and beverage packaging. But...
Plastics recycling technology roundup: Nov. 29, 2016
A recyclable, recycled-content polyester material has been developed for automotive components, and a high-molecular-weight PLA could replace PP in packaging....
Overall bottle recycling in US is flat but PP is up
The U.S. recycling rate for HDPE bottles dropped slightly in 2015, while the rate for PP bottles increased noticeably. Counting...
Plastics recycling technology roundup: Nov. 2, 2016
A facility near London is using a new baffled oscillation technology to separate PP and PE in a water tank,...
DuPont announces compatibilizer for mixed PP, PE streams
A new compatibilizer boosts the properties of plastics made from mixed streams of PP and PE, according to DuPont. The...
GreenMantra: Recycled-plastic wax serves as extrusion aid, boost to recycled resins
GreenMantra Technologies says its waxes, made from post-consumer plastics, can be used as additives to boost profitability for other reclaimers....
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