Recycling
Virginia's Legislature has struck a deal between environmental and business interests, banning expanded polystryene takeout packaging but adopting a new law on chemical recycling factories favored by the plastics industry.
A new initiative, launched by BOPET Films Europe and Searious Business, is seeking to address the issue of flexible packaging recyclability.
With the introduction of its carton packaging containing attributed recycled polymers derived from advanced recycling, Tetra Pak has become the first company in the food and beverage packaging industry to be awarded the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) Advanced Products certification.
Additives producer Baerlocher, has long advocated the use of stabilisers to enhance the quality of post-consumer polyolefin recycled materials.
The collaboration announced last year between film and packaging producer Südpack and Recenso, the developer of the Carboliq chemical recycling process has yielded its first tangible results: a truckload of oil.
A European project aimed at developing an economically feasible method to successfully recycle PMMA is currently testing a solution based on thermal depolymerisation.
For Epsotech, a manufacturer of extruded engineered polymer sheet materials, sustainability means, among other things, a focus on recycling, and above all, on recyclability.
Materials maker Ineos Styrolution has struck a joint development agreement with technology firm Polystyvert to improve recycling of polystyrene.
Seeking to reduce the amount of plastic waste ending up in landfills, a project funded by the Valencian Innovation Agency in Spain is developing new approaches to artificial turf recycling.
A new, collaborative project from VinylPlus, the Voluntary Commitment to sustainable development of the European PVC industry, targeted at boosting sustainability in healthcare across Europe, has launched today.
Polystyvert of Montreal uses dissolution technology to process PS from multiple streams.
Huhtamaki Flexible Packaging Europe has obtained RecyClass approval for three polyethylene laminated tube technologies, developed in collaboration with its partners, the Czech injection moulder and toolmaker, Zalesi, and Plastuni Lisses, a member of Somater Group.
After two years of testing and development, Swedish packaging solutions provider Emballator is introducing a new, circular material called rPP Soft Grey.
Vanden Recycling has announced the appointment of Paul Turner as senior advisor - a role that the company says will be critical as the plastics recycling company continues to expand its global footprint and open new divisions.