Recycling
The new APR PCR certification programme created by the Association of Plastics Recyclers (APR) in the US has seen much faster acceptance in the marketplace than anticipated, the association has announced.
MBA Polymers UK, have been shortlisted as a finalist in the category Recycling Facility of the Year in the National Recycling Awards 2020.
Global chemicals producer Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) is purchasing Industrie Maurizio Peruzzo Polowat spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością - IMP Polowat - , a PET recycling facility in Poland.
Versalis, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Italian oil supermajor Eni, has entered into an agreement with Forever Plast SpA, a leading Italian company in the recovery and recycling of post-consumer plastic to develop and market a new range of solid polystyrene products made from recycled packaging.
While chemical recycling technologies are still far from mature, film producer Südpack, for one, is convinced that not only do they offer a way to meet the ambitious recycling targets set by the European Union but also to develop a closed-loop model that actually works.
Improvements in productivity and efficiency at Latvian PET bottle recycling company PET Baltija have produced results.
Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials has acquired the assets of two German carbon fibre recycling businesses – sister companies CFK Valley Stade Recycling GmbH and Co. KG and carboNXT GmbH, the company announced 30 July.
Responding to the recent report published by environmental organisation GAIA under the title “All Talk and No Recycling: An Investigation of the U.S. ‘Chemical Recycling’ Industry”, Keith Christman, managing director of plastic markets at the American Chemistry Council has issued the following statement:
The last meeting of the European Council ended with decisions that will have major implications for the plastics processing industry, writes Tomasz Mikulski, of ML Polyolefins.
The plastic tax agreed last week as part of the new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) - the EU’s financial perspective for the coming seven years - and coronavirus recovery fund will further increase the cost of plastic recycling and encourage the shift to other packaging materials with a bigger environmental impact, according to EuPC Managing Director Alexandre Dangis.
Dow has recruited another partner to its Renuva mattress recycling programme. The company announced that it will collaborate with Eco-mobilier, the French mattress and furniture EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) organisation, on the collection and supply of post-consumer polyurethane foam for the programme.
The Dutch State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management Stientje van Veldhoven has announced that the packaging industry in the Netherlands will not only be implementing the recycling targets set by the EU, but that this will be taken a step further.
CELEX has elected Feliks Bezati, Global Sustainable Packaging Manager at Mars, as the new representative for the Brand Owners and Retailers segment of the value chain.
Plastix is a plastics recycling company in Denmark with a focus on providing solutions for used fishing nets and ropes that would otherwise end up in landfill or the ocean. Titan Bioplastics is a US-based nanotechnology biopolymer-based science firm offering a variety of biodegradable based material technologies.