Technology

A patented cleaning process allows for the use of RPET in heat sealable polyester packaging film, and PET depolymerization technologies...

A new carpet recycling facility in Arizona is producing recycled PP for injection molding and nylon 6 for chemical recycling...

PLA is marketed to consumers for its ability to degrade in composting systems. But a Los Angeles startup sees mechanical...

The parent of global retailer IKEA has invested in a pair of European companies developing cutting-edge plastics recycling technologies. Ingka...

Two companies are working together to develop standalone plants where scrap PET can be chemically broken down and then re-polymerized...

Researchers in Spain are exploring the use of enzymes to deodorize recycled plastics from food packaging. AIMPLAS, a plastics technology...

A new PET recycling system combines decontamination approaches from two different European equipment providers. Austria-based Erema and and Switzerland-headquartered Polymetrix...

A European chemicals and plastics industry report identifies technology developments needed to help usher in a circular economy for plastics....

The Sustainable Packaging Coalition director says that with today's insufficient recycling infrastructure and evolving packaging stream, both chemical and mechanical...

One of the world's largest beverage companies will lend money to a Dutch startup that is commercializing a PET depolymerization...