Recycling
Recycling
Low collection rates and lack of design for recycling are amongst the reasons behind the low recycling rate of 31% for flexible polyethylene films in Europe, according to Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE).
DS Smith Plastics’ injection moulding business has introduced a new line of packaging options known as loop ready packaging (LRP).
The environmental message at Chinaplas 2019 was pretty simple: The industry needs to find a way to address public worries around plastic waste or it risks future growth if consumers view plastics as a problem.
Plastic materials do not belong in the oceans or the ditches but in a recycling chain. Machine engineering is an enabler, it enables recycling of plastics.
Canada is expected to issue a ban on common single-use plastics by 2021.
UK non-profit recycling advocate WRAP (waste and resources action programme) has unveiled two new grants to fund capital infrastructure projects in England to drive up the recycling of plastic packaging and textiles.
Spain-based global energy company Repsol, whose production portfolio includes styrene monomer, has joined Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS), the joint industry initiative to increase the circularity of styrenic polymers
In Finland, some 40 to 60 percent of the collected plastic waste is ultimately, for whatever reason, unsuitable for mechanical recycling and ends up being incinerated instead.
Waste Free Oceans has renewed its vow to protect the world’s oceans and waterways, with a new project in the Mediterranean Sea.
Offering his views, Ulrich Reifenhäuser, chief sales officer (CSO) of German extrusion lines manufacturer Reifenhäuser Group, highlights the importance of ‘attaching value to plastics” and “a comprehensive change of awareness in society” to tackle the growing plastic waste issue.
US-based Graham Packaging has pledged to make all of its plastics packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.
Eni’s petrochemicals arm Versalis SpA and post-consumer plastics recycling technology company Montello SpA have signed an agreement to develop a new range of polyethylene products made from recycled packaging.
A European technology to produce PET bottles entirely from post-consumer waste has been awarded the WorldStar Packaging Award.