Burger King tests new reusable packaging model in collaboration with TerraCycle

Bacardi has announced a new collaboration with Danimer Scientific that will lead to the replacement of the spirits bottles across its portfolio of brands with 100% biobased bottles made from PHA.

Working in collaboration with beauty packaging manufacturer Albéa and Sabic, The Estée Lauders Companies have announced the introduction in 2021 of a newly designed tube packaging made from certified circular polyolefins from Sabic’s Trucircle portfolio.

The aim towards a circular economy is one of many initiatives being pursued within the wider issue of mankind's environmental impact.

Milliken has earned RecyClass approval for its Millad NX 8000 technology, the company has announced.

Italian compounder Sirmax Group, long known for its expertise in polypropylene compounds, engineering plastics, thermoplastic elastomers and recycled polymers, last year also moved into the production of renewably-sourced compounds with the acquisition of a 70% stake in Venice-based Microtec Srl.

Washington — The U.S. Department of Energy announced Oct. 16 that it is providing $27 million in grants to 12 projects to support plastics recycling.

As a result of a three-way strategic collaboration, Covestro has now, for the first time, taken delivery of 1,000 tons of renewable phenol from Borealis, produced with renewable hydrocarbons from Neste.

Nordmann, an international chemical distributor headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, has signed an agreement with Biofibre, a German manufacturer of biocompounds, for the distribution of Biofibre’s product range in a broad selection of European countries, effective immediately.

In a project both aimed at addressing a number of key recycling challenges and promoting circularity in household appliances Electrolux and Stena Recycling, a Swedish recycler of, among others, discarded electronic consumer products, have jointly developed a vacuum cleaner prototype made of 100% recycled and reused materials.

LG Chem has announced that it has successfully developed a wholly new biobased polymer offering mechanical properties and transparency similar to a conventional fossil-based materials like PP.