Recycling
Vanden Recycling has built a thriving business on the belief that plastic scrap has value.
U.S. recyclers are willing to do their part to increase recycling rates, but they are currently constrained by available supplies, according to the Association of Plastic Recyclers.
Brussels – A European Commission regulation aimed at reducing carcinogenic materials in rubber granules used for synthetic turf has come into force.
As Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, puts it, our current economy is based on the belief that we can extract resources boundlessly, use them inefficiently, and discard them wantonly, drawing from the planet more than it can regenerate and polluting more than we can clean up.
The pilot project launched by PepsiCo in February of this year, in which the food and beverage giant aimed to manufacture 830 ecological pallets for use in two of the company's logistics centres, has apparently been a major success.
The new advanced recycling facility planned by China Tianying Inc. -CNTY - in Jiangsu Province will be based on the UpCycle process technology developed by Honeywell.
Lactalis Nestlé, a major producer of yoghurt and dairy desserts, has announced that it is transitioning to the use of recycled plastic in the packaging for two of its brands in Spain and Portugal.
In this Way2K interview conducted by the VDMA in the lead-up to K 2022, Dr. Benedikt Brenken, director of the R-Cycle initiative, explains the importance of digital data in enabling a circular economy.
The latest figures from the national packaging waste database show that the UK has achieved the highest volume of plastic packaging recycling on record in the second quarter of 2022.
Registration has now opened for the British Plastics Federation’s half-day online event looking at the latest developments in chemical recycling scheduled to run from 13.00 to 17.00 on 11 October.
It’s an anniversary year for Krall Kunststoff-Recycling, a family-owned plastics recycling company located in Elsenfeld am Main, Germany.
In this Way2K interview conducted by the VDMA in the lead-up to K 2022, Achim Ebel, Vice President Sales at Herbold Meckesheim GmbH emphasises the need for putting a functioning waste management system in place.
If the research project is successful, the company plans to sell pellets recovered from fishing nets to processors looking for a source of recycled material.
Archwey is a new name in the plastics industry, but it’s one that means business.