Recycling
Recycling
The new Futurecraft.Loop can be returned to adidas, broken down and reused to create new performance running shoes.
The newly-founded association Chemical Recycling Europe has issued its first “position paper”, highlighting the most urgent topics affecting the industry.
Swiss high-performance plastics supplier Gurit Holding AG has is in the process of purchasing PET recycler Valplastic Srl in Italy, it was announced 17 April.
Cabot Corp. launched new grades of black masterbatch based on recycled polymers during the Plastics Recycling Show Europe 2019, held in Amsterdam 9-11 April.
One of the largest consumer packaged goods companies in the world is pledging that its plastic packaging in North America will contain 50% recycled content by the end of this year.
Energy drinks company Lucozade Ribena Suntory and Virgin Money London Marathon (VMLM) have launched a closed-loop recycling initiative to offer runners sampling bottles made out of 100% recycled PET.
Hungarian energy company MOL Group has agreed to acquire German recycled plastic compounder Aurora as part of its long-term strategy to expand its petrochemicals portfolio.
Tomra Sorting Recycling has launched its Innosort Flake plastic waste sorting machine in Europe, billing it as “the future of plastics recycling”.
Ineos Styrolution has successfully manufactured virgin polystyrene from depolymerised styrenic plastic waste.
Prompted by demand from the market Ampacet, has developed REC-NIR-BLACK black masterbatches that contain no carbon black pigment.
Rigid PVC processor TeraPlast has launched a new subsidiary business aimed at spearheading vinyl plastic waste recycling in Romania.
The winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2019 were announced today at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe, held at the RAI Amsterdam in The Netherlands.
UK-based Recycling Technologies, who is exhibiting at PRSE2019 in Amsterdam, takes a different approach to recycling than other players in the industry. The company that has developed a modular and scalable machine called the RT7000 which is able to chemically convert plastic waste, which currently cannot be recycled.
Plastics Recycling Show Europe 2019 (PRSE 2019) opened in Amsterdam this morning where European Commissioner Kestutis Sadauskas gave his full support to efforts carried out in making plastics circular.