Trials aim to optimize sorting and processing
During a series of tests aimed at optimizing PET thermoform recycling, researchers made a key discovery: the mechanical dryer they...
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GreenMantra: Recycled-plastic wax helps extrusion process and grows bottom line
GreenMantra Technologies says its waxes, made from post-consumer plastics, can be used as additives to boost profitability for other reclaimers....
Canadian startup scales up process to break down PET
Montreal-based Loop Industries is working to commercialize its heatless, pressureless PET depolymerization technology after raising millions of dollars from investors...
Wide world of plastics recycling: Nov. 1, 2016
The PET recycling rate is increasing in South Africa, and a PVC recycling program in the U.K. gets kudos. Austria:...
A victory for glass recycling in Colorado
A Denver-based recycling and waste collection company is now sending broken glass from its materials recovery facility to a specialized...
MRF of the Moment: Ballistic separator part of facility retrofit in Nebraska
An upgrade at a Midwest MRF has dramatically boosted its throughput while allowing it to better separate materials. The changes...
In other news: Oct. 25, 2016
ExxonMobil is part of a project developing a type of flexible film that could be more easily integrated into 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....
Court approves sale of closed reclaimer Entropex
The assets of shuttered plastics reclaimer Entropex will be purchased by the founders of Emterra Group and Merlin Plastics Group....
APR starts sweating the small stuff
The Association of Plastic Recyclers will research ways in which materials recovery facilities might be able to recover more smaller...
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