Recycling
Recycling
The Malaysian plastics industry is proposing an extended producer responsibility system for plastics packaging and says that with government support the country can quadruple the size of its plastics recycling sector.
Colgate-Palmolive Co. has developed a recyclable toothpaste tube and is willing to share the new packaging development with competitors.
Austrian flexible packaging firm Constantia Flexibles has opened a new production plant in Ahmedabad, western India.
Auto giant Groupe Renault has co-developed a patented textile produced exclusively from recycled waste safety belts, textile scraps and post-consumer PET plastic bottles.
Entries for the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe, hosted by the Plastics Recycling Show Europe, will close on Friday 22 Nov.
US-based Audia Elastomers has launched a range of thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) based on marine-waste plastics, the company announced 14 Nov.
Central Europe plastics processor Regra Plast, spol. S.r.o. is understood to be planning to expand its waste plastics recycling capacity in the Czech Republic.
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.
America's anemic plastics recycling rate has further deteriorated.
German packaging major Klöckner Pentaplast (kp) has launched a new sustainable range of expanded polypropylene packaging for the food service and food-to-go sector.
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.
Global materials firm Ravago Group plans to work with oil firm Neste Oyj to process more than 200,000 tons of waste plastics per year through chemical recycling.
About 2 million single-use coffee cups are thrown away each day in Ireland
UK-headquartered Vanden Recycling has established an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to extend its recycling services to the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.