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Sustainability on the mind of K 2019 exhibitors

What can the plastics industry do to help shine its reputation in this time of change?

Colgate-Palmolive to share recyclable tube technology

Colgate-Palmolive Co. has developed a recyclable toothpaste tube and is willing to share the new packaging development with competitors.

Chemical recycler Agilyx opening offices in Europe and US East Coast

Agilyx Corp., which uses chemical recycling to recover used plastics, will open additional offices on the East Coast of the US and in Northern Europe.

US plastics recycling rate continues to fall

America's anemic plastics recycling rate has further deteriorated.

Berry, Sabic join forces in chemical recycling

US packaging giant Berry Global Group Inc. and materials supplier Saudi Basic Industries Corp. have announced a partnership to create and use polyolefin resins made from chemical recycling.

BP opening $25m chemical recycling plant in Illinois

BP plc says the chemical recycling project in Naperville, Illinois, Wants focus on hard-to-recycle objects.

PureCycle CEO sees future with 25 plants located around the world

Breakthrough technology being developed to return difficult-to-recycle polypropylene to near-virgin quality now is showing promise for at least one other key resin.

Pilot project turns plastic marine waste into Coke bottles

A small-scale PET recycling project — but one with some large-scale names behind it — is creating sample bottles partially made from marine debris.

Australian billionaire to back chemical recycling efforts globally

An Australian billionaire known for making his money through iron ore mining wants to change the plastics recycling industry, and he's pledging US$300m (€274m) to do just that.

Plastics industry at ‘tipping point' says Coke exec
As senior category manager for strategic procurement sourcing at Coca-Cola Co. sees "a state of emergency" in plastics industry.
Pepsi accelerates plan to use less virgin plastic

PepsiCo Inc. wants to cut use of virgin plastic beverage packaging by more than a third by the middle of next decade.

Official: US lacking recycled PET to meet consumer brands' pledges

America simply does not have enough recycled PET supply or processing capacity to satisfy commitments being made by brand owners to increase recaptured resin content in their bottles, new data shows.

Marriott phasing out small plastic bottles in hotel rooms

Hotelier Marriott International Inc., which operates dozens of brands and thousands of properties around the world, now expects to completely eliminate the use of those little plastic bottles in guest bathrooms.

Indorama pledges $1bn investment in PET recycling

With an ever-growing demand for recycled-content packaging from consumer product brand owners, the world's largest PET maker is investing at least $1bn (€900m) to meet that upcoming need.

InterContinental hotels dumping mini shampoo bottles
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