Recycling
An unusual recycling and litter abatement plan in Texas to put a 1-cent fee on bags, takeout cups and PET bottles is getting support from the PET packaging sector, which has been backing new legislation to try to raise recycling rates.
Nova Chemicals Corporation has developed and commercialised introduced its first three grades of 100% post-consumer polyethylene resins, suitable for a range of flexible film applications.
Versalis, Eni's chemical company, has added a new product to its Revive portfolio of circular products based on recycled raw materials.
In a strategic update provided by the company 6 April, France-based Carbios reaffirmed its commitment to its proprietary enzymatic PET recycling process.
Feedstock management company Cyclyx International, LLC, the consortium-based joint venture created by Agilyx and ExxonMobil to recover and sort waste plastic, has obtained certification through the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification Plus process for its post-use plastic management systems.
A recent investment of over £3,700,000 (€4.333.719) in a new PET decontamination and extrusion line will enable the use of more recycled materials in the pot and tub range produced by Greiner Packaging UK & Ireland.
With years of experience in recycling post-industrial waste into polyethylene regranulate, P.P.H.U. ANNA Recykling, based at Celestynów near Warsaw, has now expanded its activities to include post-consumer film recycling.
BASF SE is stepping up its support for chemical recycling in Mexico by backing a new pyrolysis plant in one of the country's most industrialised states.
Plastics Forming Enterprises, based in Amherst, New Hampshire, has been recognised by Plastics Recyclers Europe as an officially accredited RecyClass laboratory - the first U.S. testing facility to achieve such accreditation.
Leading bioplastics manufacturer Novamont has joined hands with Italian multi-utility company Iren to design and develop an integrated waste collection system, that will reduce the volume of non-recyclable waste at source and more fully implement the objectives of the circular bioeconomy.
Pushing forward towards a more circular economy for plastics, Trinseo and BASF are expanding their businesses with the production of styrene based on circular feedstock derived from advanced recycling technologies or biomass.
Covestro has taken a process to recycle the PU flexible foam from used mattresses, developed in collaboration with eight other partners within the scope of the EU-funded PUReSmart-project, to the next level.
The reintroduction of far-reaching Democratic plastics legislation in Congress got an amped up pushback from the industry. But political changes in Washington and shifts in industry positions have changed the field.