Technology

Major prime plastics producers have recently made moves to embrace cutting-edge recycling technologies, including applying depolymerization to challenging plastics streams....

Two equipment companies will demonstrate an inline system capable of taking PET bottle flake through to sheet. Austrian and Italian...

For more than two decades, Erema's Laserfilter has been used to remove contaminants from polyolefin melt streams. A year ago,...

A ribbon-cutting ceremony last week at the Agilyx plant in Oregon drew a mix of business and government representatives, including...

Swedish apparel giant H&M last year saw a notable drop in its consumption of recovered PET for polyester applications. But...

Researchers will use compatibilizers to determine what kind of properties they can achieve when recycling multi-material flexible plastics from hospitals....

A pyrolysis company converting post-consumer plastics into fuels and waxes will get a big boost from British oil and gas...

Researchers from the University of Illinois have developed a non-toxic method for recycling polycarbonate plastic, which is often used in...

A company using enzymes to break down PET into its components has successfully applied its technology to textiles. Carbios, located...

Flake-washing equipment from Italian equipment company Amut removes contaminants from flake via centrifugal force. The company's line of Turbo Washers...