EnergyBag expands into Idaho and Georgia
Two midsize jurisdictions are joining a program that collects plastics not currently accepted for recycling and sends them to energy...
Technology
Students pursue cheaper tool for identifying plastics
A team of college students in the U.K. is developing a low-cost instrument to allow manual sorters to quickly recognize...
Panel OKs technologies for food-contact RPET
A scientific panel signed off on a slew of PET recycling technologies this year, determining they produce clean RPET that...
Vertellus developing RPET sequel to its nylon additive
A chemicals company that makes a nylon-boosting additive says it's now developing a product to improve properties of recycled PET....
EU-supported project advances PET chemical recycling
The European Union will invest millions of euros into advancing a microwave depolymerization technology for PET container scrap and polyester...
Equipment Spotlight: Pulverizer leans on the laws of physics
German company Neue Herbold has re-engineered a plastics pulverizer machine to increase throughput without using more energy. The company's ZM800,...
Report explores new ways to recycle polyester fiber
When it comes to recovering polyester from textiles, chemical recycling technologies might just be what the reclaimer ordered, a new...
Pacts may hint at the future of polystyrene recovery
Polystyrene producer INEOS Styrolution has recently partnered with a pair of companies that are developing emerging chemical PS recycling processes....
Q&A: How a collaboration led to an inline bottle pre-form system
Two plastics equipment companies recently held a demonstration of what they call the world's first inline system converting washed PET...
Petcore Europe reports on thermoform recycling progress
In Europe, thermoform packaging is using more and more RPET content, but impediments remain to efficient recycling of the thermoforms...
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