Recycling
Packaging manufacturer Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG is investing €15 million ($17.7 million) in a high-density polyethylene recycling plant in Mexico, adding to a portfolio of HDPE recycling operations it bought in 2019.
In a joint statement released earlier today, Ineos Styrolution and Trinseo have announced that they are advancing plans from the planning process to the design phase to build what they are calling a ‘first-of-its-kind polystyrene recycling plant based on depolymerisation’ in Wingles, in the north of France.
NextChem, the Maire Tecnimont Group’s company for green chemistry and energy transition technologies, and its subsidiary MyReplast Industries, have taken a further step towards the goal of setting up a viable recycling business that meets the needs of customers seeking sustainable solutions for their products.
The organisers of the Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) have announced the postponement of PRSE 2020, which had been scheduled to take place on 27 and 28 October 2020 at the RAI Amsterdam, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Circularise, a Dutch start-up founded in 2016 that has developed a blockchain solution for enhancing transparency by tracing materials and sharing data in the plastics industry, has raised €1.5 million funding from the EU Commission’s H2020’s SME Instrument.
Following the announcement in December last year that Coca-Cola in Sweden would become the first market to transition from the use of new virgin oil-based plastic in PET bottles to 100% rPET, now two more markets have also been confirmed to be making the switch.
A new supply agreement for recycled LDPE and LLDPE signed with leading waste management company Saica Natur has allowed Ineos Olefins & Polymers to expand its Recycl-IN range.
Sibur has announced that it plans to commence production of PET based on recycled PET flakes derived from used food packaging at its site at Polief, in the Republic of Bashkortostan.
Calgary-based Nova Chemicals, a producer of virgin polyethylene has partnered with Canadian plastics recycler Merlin Plastics with the aim of advancing the supply of high-quality, post-consumer recyclate - PCR - for consumer packaging.
When the preliminary results of EuPC’s third survey on the use of recycled plastic materials by European converters were announced earlier this year in February, the coronavirus had yet to commence its devastating spread across the continent.
In its latest UK Household Plastic Packaging Sorting and Reprocessing Infrastructure Report 2020, plastics recycling charity Recoup has highlighted the hurdles facing plastics producers of reprocessed materials in the UK if the industry is to be able to meet the recycled content target mandated by the proposed Plastic Packaging Tax.
The “3 Circles” bottle, developed by Krones and its digital decoration subsidiary, Dekron, has been announced as one of the winners of the 2020 German Packaging Award in the category of sustainability.
A new certification scheme has been launched by Recyclass verifies the traceability of recycled plastic material from the source to the final product.