Attractive innovation: Magnets help on bottle recycling obstacle
A startup that supplies an ink allowing shrink sleeve labels to be separated from PET flakes with a magnet has...
Technology
Details on a reclaimer’s new processing line
Kal-Polymers is spending up to $4 million to install an integrated processing line, which is boosting PP recycling capacity and...
How one new system is handling a challenging stream
A processing line now operational in the U.K. recycles plastics from refrigerators by modifying the density of water and leveraging...
Two bottles and a tube meet APR’s recyclability standards
The Association of Plastic Recyclers recently recognized the recyclability of three packaging innovations: a 100% plastic aerosol bottle, a tube...
Variety of companies push forward additive solutions
Ampacet, ExxonMobil and other producers of additives that boost the quality of recycled plastics have made a number of announcements...
Plastics recycling technology roundup: Feb. 3, 2020
A recyclable Colgate-Palmolive tube undergoes recyclability testing in Europe, and a number of equipment innovations are up for awards. Recovering...
Berry elaborates on its chemically recycled plastic
Berry Global's use of chemically recycled LLDPE in demonstration pouches is only the beginning of the company's embrace of post-consumer...
Brand owner adopts recyclable PE pouch for granola
A Kellogg's brand has begun using a pouch with an additive that compatibalizes its EVOH barrier layer and PE film...
Startup puts mixed-plastic bales in R&D sights
A depolymerization technology company received millions of dollars from the Canadian government to adapt its polystyrene-focused process to handle mixed...
Reclaimer to install post-consumer plastic cleaning line
Oregon-based Denton Plastics will add equipment allowing the company to process contaminated source-separated plastics. Denton Plastics received a $684,000 grant...
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