Battery stewardship group turns to auto sortation
An artificially intelligent optical sortation device has started sorting some of the millions of pounds of batteries collected across the...
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Showcase highlights innovative inventions
The Association of Plastic Recyclers spotlighted five recycled-product innovations and one educational effort at the group's first Plastic Recycling Showcase...
European approvals open opportunities in rPET food packaging
A European scientific panel has given its approval to a pair of industry proposals related to recycling PET into food...
South Carolina startup to recycle difficult-to-recover plastics
An in-development plastics recycling company will take in difficult-to-recover plastics, including PP from sharps, mixed rigid bales and PET fines....
Dow offers details on recyclable pouch
Dow officials say more brands are beginning to adopt its recently released stand-up pouch, which is made from one polymer...
Process recovered PET into virgin plastic? French firm says it’s possible
French company Carbios has developed an enzyme-based recycling technology, which breaks down PET into monomers that can be used to...
A $90 million plastics-to-fuel plant planned in Indiana
A small Midwest town is slated to welcome a plastics-to-fuel facility converting up to 100,000 tons of mixed plastics per...
Startup develops 3-D printing filaments from recycled resins
A U.K. company that developed a 100 percent recycled ABS 3-D printing filament is now working to develop six other...
French company aims to build a polymer from old airbags
Construction has started on a facility to recycle vehicle airbag scrap into a high-quality polyamide 6.6, according to international chemical...
EU innovation singles out food-contact bottles in recycling stream
Researchers have developed fluorescent coating that could allow for fast, automated sorting of food-contact PET from non-food-contact PET in mixed...
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