Technology

A recyclable, recycled-content polyester material has been developed for automotive components, and a high-molecular-weight PLA could replace PP in packaging....

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Chicago residents are closer to paying bag fees, and plastics recycling equipment innovations were on display at Germany's K show....

Equipment makers display their latest plastics recycling technologies every three years at the K trade show. Following are details on...

Montreal-based Loop Industries is working to commercialize its heatless, pressureless PET depolymerization technology after raising millions of dollars from investors...

A facility near London is using a new baffled oscillation technology to separate PP and PE in a water tank,...

A new compatibilizer boosts the properties of plastics made from mixed streams of PP and PE, according to DuPont. The...

The struggling maker of a PHA-based additive to boost the properties of recycled PVC has sold its plastics business. Massachusetts-based...

Scientists are using an enzyme to break down PET and PU into their component monomers and then employing bacteria to...

North American reclaimers boosted recycling of PET thermoforms last year, despite difficulties the packaging has in the way of look-alike...