Recycling
In recent years, ocean-bound plastic, plastic waste that originates within 50 km of the coast and is likely to end up in the ocean, has increasingly been recognised as a potentially recoverable, recyclable resource.
Polyolefin manufacturer Borealis has teamed up with the environmental and material recovery experts of the Reclay Group, the company has announced.
Technology group Heraeus Holding GMBH, a Germany based family-owned portfolio company with roots going back to the seventeenth century, has announced that it has acquired a majority stake in perPETual Technologies, a leading PET recycling company based in Kleinostheim, Germany.
The Austria-based company saw sales climb 17 percent in its most recent fiscal year.
Automotive supplier Faurecia and global waste management company Veolia have signed a cooperation and research agreement to jointly develop compounds based on recycled materials for automotive interior modules in Europe.
Ocean Recovery Group (ORG), a Florida based social-business enterprise is working to solve the planet’s ocean-bound plastics crisis in the Western Hemisphere, has become the first United States-headquartered company to achieve Zero Plastic Oceans’ Ocean-Bound Plastic certifications for collection, recycling and neutralisation.
Ghost gear pollution is a huge problem and a major contributor to the ocean plastics crisis in every major body of water in the world.
Australia recently opened its largest PET recycling plant ever.
Film manufacturer Charter Next also will purchase resin recycled by Myplas USA to create new products.
Packaging expert Alpla Group is far more than packaging alone.
In the Netherlands, Teho EuRope B.V. - Teho Ropes - and PCP B.V. have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate on the recycling of end-of-life mooring ropes used in shipping.
While flexible packaging waste comprises as much as 45% of the waste generated in households, this packaging remains one of the most challenging types of materials to process and recycle.
K.B. Recycling Industries Ltd, an environmental technology company that carries on business under the name Alkemy, has announced that it is acquiring 100% of the shares of Spain-based plastics converter Plasticos Flome S.L.
France-based biochemistry company Carbios has, together with Solvay, demonstrated that its PET depolymerisation recycling process is also suitable for barrier film.