Recycling
Hamburg-based distributor K.D. Feddersen and Aurora Kunststoffe, a manufacturer of high-quality technical recompounds based in Neuenstein, Germany, are expanding the scope of a collaboration that has been in place between the two companies since 2014.
KraussMaffei has developed extrusion technology that handles the plasticising and degassing process steps just as well as repelletising and recompounding operations.
In a legislative session full of plastics bills, Colorado wrapped up June 8 by banning plastic bags and EPS takeout containers, dropping an alternative pushed by industry, and giving cities the authority to go further.
Barbie is debuting its first doll made from recycled plastic along with a marketing campaign, "The Future of Pink is Green."
Tomra Recycling, the Norwegian pioneer of sensor-based sorting solutions for, among others, plastics recycling processes, has named Ty Rhoad as the new Regional Director Americas.
Brightmark LLC said the facility will turn waste plastics into fuels, plastic feedstocks and waxes, and will be the largest such plant in the world. It did not provide a date for when the $680 million plant would start.
Monitoring Recyclates for Europe (MORE), the EU harmonised digital platform to monitor the uptake of recycled polymers into products, went back on line on 1 June, following its annual closure for maintenance and updates.
Yesterday saw the official unveiling of the podiums for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 medal award ceremonies.
Technip Energies has signed an agreement with Agilyx Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Agilyx AS and pioneer in the advanced recycling of post-use plastics, under which it will market and license the integrated technologies of Agilyx depolymerisation and Technip Energies purification technology.
The company that owns the Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring water brand is opening its second PET recycling plant, part of a goal to have 50 percent recycled content in its bottles.
A new recycling plant in the Netherlands will recycle not just expanded polystyrene (EPS) demolition waste but also a legacy additive previously thought impossible to recycle.
Two-year EATS project successfully demonstrates that the recycling of automotive PVC waste can play a role in the transition to a more circular plastics economy.
Metaspectral has been awarded a grant from the CleanBC Plastics Action Fund to support the development of AI-powered sorting technology that can sort plastics automatically.
The beverage company is teaming up with Ocean Cleanup to install trash interceptors across 15 polluted rivers over the next 18 months.