Beverage giants pledge $100M to support bottle recycling
Coca-Cola, Keurig Dr Pepper and PepsiCo have pledged to put their money behind boosting processing technology and increasing curbside collection...
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The Recycling Partnership quantifies RPET demand gap
PET collection is lagging behind recycled resin demand by more than 1 billion pounds per year, according to a study,...
Facility to depolymerize up to 88M pounds of PET annually
This story has been corrected. Seeing strong demand, Loop Industries and Indorama Ventures have decided to roughly double the capacity...
Beverage giant unveils marine plastic bottles
The Coca-Cola Co. released a container made partially from ocean plastic, making it the latest company to pursue a food-contact...
Two California companies leave plastics recycling trade group
PET-focused CarbonLite Industries and Verdeco Recycling recently exited the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), saying the group has "not embraced...
Post-consumer plastics prices see notable changes
The price of PET took a dive over the past month, but the value of natural HDPE climbed substantially. Post-consumer...
Pepsi: Getting enough RPET requires better infrastructure
It's clear the current recycling system can't deliver sufficient resin for brand owners to hit their increasingly ambitious recycled-content goals....
Here’s who recently received FDA recycling letters
A company was given the go-ahead to recycle post-consumer PET into multi-layer reheatable food trays. Meanwhile, a global packaging company...
Indorama will invest to meet increased RPET demand
Citing the need to meet rising demand in the near future, plastics producer Indorama is investing $1 billion in its...
Unifi: Cheap foreign polyester hurting US profits
A major U.S. consumer of RPET enjoyed higher sales figures but suffered significantly lower net income last fiscal year. One...
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