Recycling
Ansfelden, Austria — Shredder-extruder systems maker Pure Loop GmbH, a subsidiary of Erema Group GmbH, installed a machine at the company's technical center in in Ipswich, Mass., to offer material tests for potential customers wanting to boost in-house recycling.
Ineffective sorting is currently one of the main barriers to the wider recycling of lightweight packaging waste.
The new recycling facility that is being built at Tiel, the Netherlands, has achieved an environmental goal that sets this process apart from others in the industry.
Green Group subsidiary company Green Fiber has announced that its annual PET bottle recycling capacity now exceeds 2 billion bottles.
An unusual recycling and litter abatement plan in Texas to put a 1-cent fee on bags, takeout cups and PET bottles is getting support from the PET packaging sector, which has been backing new legislation to try to raise recycling rates.
Nova Chemicals Corporation has developed and commercialised introduced its first three grades of 100% post-consumer polyethylene resins, suitable for a range of flexible film applications.
Versalis, Eni's chemical company, has added a new product to its Revive portfolio of circular products based on recycled raw materials.
In a strategic update provided by the company 6 April, France-based Carbios reaffirmed its commitment to its proprietary enzymatic PET recycling process.
Feedstock management company Cyclyx International, LLC, the consortium-based joint venture created by Agilyx and ExxonMobil to recover and sort waste plastic, has obtained certification through the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification Plus process for its post-use plastic management systems.
A recent investment of over £3,700,000 (€4.333.719) in a new PET decontamination and extrusion line will enable the use of more recycled materials in the pot and tub range produced by Greiner Packaging UK & Ireland.
With years of experience in recycling post-industrial waste into polyethylene regranulate, P.P.H.U. ANNA Recykling, based at Celestynów near Warsaw, has now expanded its activities to include post-consumer film recycling.
BASF SE is stepping up its support for chemical recycling in Mexico by backing a new pyrolysis plant in one of the country's most industrialised states.
Plastics Forming Enterprises, based in Amherst, New Hampshire, has been recognised by Plastics Recyclers Europe as an officially accredited RecyClass laboratory - the first U.S. testing facility to achieve such accreditation.