Technology

If PET is PET is PET to a standard optical sorter, Tomra's new Sharp Eye technology isn't standard. The company...

An integrated plastics reclaimer counters claims about the non-recyclability of black plastics, and a UK company develops a more-efficient plastics-to-oil...

PLA, a polymer that’s growing in popularity, is often marketed to brand owners for its biodegradability in commercial composting systems....

Global petrochemicals company Total has partnered with a startup that dissolves and recovers EPS for recycling. Officials from both companies...

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....