Recycling
Materials firm Americas Styrenics LLC (AmSty) has set a goal of 25 percent recycled content in all foodservice and food packaging applications by 2030.
As part of its ongoing efforts to minimize environmental impact, Burger King has launched a partnership with TerraCycle’s circular packaging service, Loop, to pilot a closed-loop system with zero-waste packaging that can be cleaned and safely reused.
Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) will now run as a virtual event from 9 to 11 December 2020. Virginijus Sinkevičius, Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries at the European Commission will deliver the opening keynote address. PRSE will return as an in-person event in 2021.
Advanced recycling company QM Recycled Energy has taken delivery of the first pyrolysis-based plastic waste-to-fuel continuous processing plant in the UK.
Milliken has earned RecyClass approval for its Millad NX 8000 technology, the company has announced.
Washington — The U.S. Department of Energy announced Oct. 16 that it is providing $27 million in grants to 12 projects to support plastics recycling.
In a project both aimed at addressing a number of key recycling challenges and promoting circularity in household appliances Electrolux and Stena Recycling, a Swedish recycler of, among others, discarded electronic consumer products, have jointly developed a vacuum cleaner prototype made of 100% recycled and reused materials.
Nestlé UK and Ireland and Plastic Energy, a UK-headquartered chemical recycling company have announced they will be jointly involved in a project to investigate the possibilities for developing a new pyrolysis-based commercial-scale chemical recycling plant in the UK.
In the UK, the recycling industry has received an unprecedented funding boost in the form of a £20m by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in four advanced recycling plants.
Advanced recycling company ReNew ELP, based in Teesside, has won a £4.42 million (€4.9 million) grant from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to build the world’s first commercial-scale plastic recycling plant using Cat-HTR technology.
Trinseo Europe GmbH has been granted Mass Balance Certification by the International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) for three of its material families, following an audit by TÜV Nord.
Lindner Recyclingtech, an Austria-based, family owned supplier of shredding technology and system solutions for recycling, has opened a new subsidiary in Singapore.
A new report compiled by Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT on behalf of the Alba Group has revealed that the Group saved over 4.2 million tonnes in greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 through the closed-loop circulation of 6 million tonnes of recyclables.
A Singapore startup that has developed technology to turn plastic waste into road additives has taken the top prize at ideasinc 2020, a start-up accelerator programme run by NTUitive, the innovation and enterprise company of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.