Successful pilot leads to implementation rPS at industrial scale

This familiar children’s song tells of two characters, Henry and Liza, trying unsuccessfully to fix a hole in his leaky bucket.

“The world needs to have a solution for every type of plastic,” said Fred Schmuck, CEO of advanced recycling company, Alterra Energy. 

Ansonia, Connecticut – Mixing technology and compounding systems specialist Farrel Pomini is investing in a UK waste tire pyrolysis company to create a ‘solid platform’ to close the tire recycling loop.

As what is part of the largest investment programmes in KraussMaffei’s history, KraussMaffei Group is building a completely new plant plus a modern extrusion R&D centre in Laatzen, on the outskirts of Hannover, where it is merging all corporate extrusion operations at a single location.

The Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge Fund (SSPP) was established to support investment in research and innovation in plastic packaging to help the UK achieve the very stretching Plastic Pact targets.

The single-use carrier bag charge introduced in England for major supermarkets in 2015 has proven a remarkable success. New research finds the charge is supported overwhelmingly by the public – with 95% of people in England acknowledging the wide-ranging benefits to the environment so far.

Germany-based nova-Institute, a privately-owned research and consultancy organisation with a focus on the bio-based and CO2-based economy has devised a new conference concept for the renewables field.

German machinery executive Ulrich Reifenhäuser, who joins the Plastics Hall of Fame this year, grew up with plastics at the dinner table.

The international situation around the global Coronavirus pandemic continues to thwart even the best-laid plans for in-person events in Germany.

A new toy take-back programme launched 10 May by toy company Mattel Inc. is aimed at recovering and reusing materials from old Mattel toys for future Mattel products.