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....
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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...
Groups say legal doubts crippling recycled food plastics
For years, a European Union panel has given its thumbs up to using recycling processes to generate food-contact recycled plastics,...
Advanced RPET plant on the way near LA
Construction is underway on a massive Los Angeles-area plastics recycling facility that will take PET bales all the way to...
Vertically integrated plastics processor holds opening event
A technologically advanced plastics processor has opened in Canada as a successor to the failed reclaimer Entropex. Sarnia, Ontario-based ReVital...
KW predicts 10 percent demand boost for one resin
A plastics recycling giant in Alabama will likely be significantly increasing its output of recycled natural HDPE after receiving a...
PETG excluded from No. 1 resin code in California
California lawmakers have revised the state’s definition of PET to exclude PETG, meaning products made from the glycol-modified plastic are...
Loop Industries signs deal for PET processing site
PET depolymerization company Loop Industries has agreed to purchase a 150,000-square-foot site for its first manufacturing facility. The Terrebonne, Quebec-headquartered...
Innovation could open fresh avenues for PS recovery
In Canada, a number of companies are tackling difficult plastic streams without using traditional mechanical recycling processes. One of them,...
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