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,...
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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,...
Compatibilizer key in film-recycling and beach cleanup project
A polymer modifier technology was used compatibilize different resins in multilayer packaging so they could be recycled into new garbage...
Q&A: How facility will recover nylon 6 from carpet
International yarn producer Aquafil will invest $10 million to build an Arizona operation generating nylon pellets from post-consumer carpet scrap....
Equipment Spotlight: Retrofits allow for food-contact PET
A crystallization dryer from EREMA allows PET reclaimers to retrofit their existing lines to sell into the higher-value food and...
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