BASF, BillerudKorsnäs collaborate on home-compostable paper laminate for flexible packaging

The value chain initiative PrintCYC, which aims to develop cost-effective, circular solutions for recycling printed plastic films into near-virgin quality recyclate for the production of new film, is making good progress, the project group reports.

Since its founding in 2016, Interface Polymers has worked to commercialise new technology to tackle the surface and polymer matrix compatibility issues in incompatible polymer blends. In just a few years, the company has produced a number of solutions.

The latest annual Household Plastics Collection survey published by plastics recycling charity Recoup indicates that one of the effects of the pandemic has been to significantly boost the plastics recycling rate from household collections.

World leaders seem to have been talking about the problem of plastic pollution without doing much about it for ages.

Since 2018, when the company had announced its intention to achieve 50% rPET usage across the EU by 2030, technological developments have occurred that are allowing the company to speed up this ambition by a considerable margin.

Greiner Packaging has announced that it has become an official member of the SIngapore-based international Alliance to End Plastic Waste.

The Brussels-based Polyolefin Circular Economy Platform (PCEP) has expanded its team with the appointment of two members of the secretariat, Rebecca Colley-Jones and Petya Todorova.

A collaborative development project participated in by a team of five companies working closely together has led to the development of a multi-barrier casing for meat products made via advanced recycling of post-consumer plastics.

The U.S. recycling rate for PET bottles dropped in 2019, but the PET sector's trade group points to signs that could lead to a turnaround, including support of container deposit systems.

Borealis has launched an innovative new pilot at four of its Belgium sites to test the advantages of a double-closed reuse and recycling loop at these sites and replacing these with 30,000 lightweight, reusable EcoCore® cups.