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...
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Plastic recycling grabs focus on Swedish Coke bottles
A Coca-Cola bottling firm is rolling out labels on certain PET bottles sold in Sweden that downplay the brand name...
Key curbside plastics no longer ‘widely’ recyclable
Changes in U.S. recycling programs led the How2Recycle labeling initiative to downgrade recyclability classifications for non-bottle rigid PET containers and...
UK waste giant opens large PET recycling facility
A plant capable of recycling nearly 126 million pounds of PET bottles per year is coming on-line today from Biffa...
Financial filing shows PET reclaimer’s income losses
Since virgin plastics company Far Eastern New Century acquired Phoenix Technologies last June, the U.S. PET reclaimer has lost substantial...
NAPCOR: PET bottle recycling rate remains near 29%
More PET bottles were collected for recycling last year, but the overall recycling rate remains stagnant, according to an industry...
Prime producers detail recycling quantities
Virgin resin producers Borealis and Indorama have made ambitious recycled plastic commitments, but post-consumer plastic still makes up a tiny...
Virgin plastic giant acquires US PET reclaimer
Indorama Ventures, the world's biggest prime PET producer, has acquired another U.S. plastics recycling company, this time on the West...
EU authority gives nod to PET recycling technologies
A panel determined that recycling technologies from Bandera, Erema, Poly Recycling and Starlinger produce RPET that's safe for use in...
Stakeholders continue to roll out chemical recycling ventures
A number of chemical recycling partnerships have been announced lately, involving companies including Ravago, Shell and even fashion brand Prada....
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