Recycling
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.
A $1.5bn (€1.3bn) effort to combat plastic pollution has its first leader.
UK masterbatch manufacturer Silvergate Plastics has launched a consistent batch-to-batch colour match service for customers using recycled raw materials.
US recycled plastics specialist MBA Polymers Inc. is expanding its presence in Europe with a new recycling plant for electrical and electronic equipment waste (WEEE) in Mauna, Germany.
Belgian manufacturer of honeycomb structures EconCore has selected Meaf machinery for its trial production of recycled PET (rPET) ThermHex honeycomb sandwich panels.
German recycling machinery supplier Vecoplan AG is launching a new single-stage shredder from its VIZ series (Vecoplan Infinity Shredders) at K 2019 in October.
Axion Polymers has made further investments in its Manchester plastics recycling facility to improve waste processing capacity.
At the upcoming K show in Düsseldorf, Germany, German blow moulding technology specialist Rikutec Group will display a portfolio comprised of products ranging from high-precision, multilayer blow moulding machines to fast-cooling moulds, and technical blow moulded products.
Chemical recycling specialist Garbo Srl is to build a commercial-scale PET recovery plant at an undisclosed location in Italy.
Sales of plastic bags by the seven biggest retailers in England have fallen by 90% since the 5p charge was introduced in 2015, new figures released by the UK government have shown.
The European recycling industry will likely miss a 2025 target for recycling PET bottles unless there is a reversal of the slowing growth rate in recycling, according to a new study by ICIS.
An architect from Mumbai, Rushabh Chheda, sought a way to tackle the twin problems of affordable housing for the nonaffluent part of the world’s population, and waste plastics. His innovative construction product – the UniBrick – not only provides a localised solution, it also has the potential to address both issues in one go. By Rushabh Chheda