Recycling
Asahi Kasei has stepped up its sustainability efforts with plans to produce 'circular' solution-polymerised styrene butadiene rubber (SSBR) by early 2022.
Ineos Styrolution today confirmed that its previously announced plans to invest into a pilot plant for advanced recycling of polystyrene would be going through
Houston, Texas-based Lummus Technology has announced that it has finalised a Letter of Intent with Phigenesis, a UK-based chemical recycling technology company producing ISCC+ certified renewable chemical feedstock for use in existing petrochemical plants.
Rising demand for high quality PCR plastic is driving companies to seek out new partners as the need to secure supplies of recycled content materials becomes ever more imperative.
A year after launching its mass-balanced bio-based polyacetal material, POM Eco-B, Celanese Corporation now working on a new sustainable polyacetal product.
Firefighters are still tackling a fire that broke out in the early hours of 18 November at the site in Gronowo Górne of Polish recyclates producer ML Sp. z o.o. recyclate production plant.
In the latest of a growing list of advanced recycling material sourcing announcements from Berry Global Group, the company says it has now signed a significant contract with PureCycle to secure the supply of that company’s Ultra-Pure Recycled (UPR) advanced recycled resin over the longer term.
An annual report card from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation said use of virgin plastics by major global brands appears to have peaked, as companies make progress on voluntary pledges.
A new initiative from the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) aims to promote and boost the amount of expanded polystyrene that is collected and recycled at its eight reuse and recycling centres - RRCs - across north London.
A new chemical recycling process based on hydrolysis and developed by Evonik that enables flexible PU foams to be converted back to the original polyol raw material is opening the door for a more efficient polyurethane mattress recycling process.
Austrian packaging giant and recycler Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG opened a 20-million-euro ($22.9 million) high density polyethylene recycling plant in central Mexico Nov. 10 and promptly announced it will double the facility's capacity to 66.2 million pounds a year by the second half of 2022.
Sarnia, Canada-headquartered Aduro Clean Technologies, a company that has developed and patented water-based technologies to chemically recycle plastics and transform heavy crude and renewable oils into new resources and fuels, and Canadian recycler Switch Energy have started talks about a potential partnership.
Upcoming sustainabilty goals will require the use of both technologies to supply recycled plastics, officials from both PepsiCo Inc. and Unilever plc said.
Chemical recycler Plastic Energy announced today that it has completed a €145 million round of financing from three separate investors: LetterOne, Axens and M&G.