Recycling
Recycling
Swedish compounder Hexpol TPE will highlight its thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) under the banner “soft, safe and sustainable” at K 2019 plastic & rubber trade show later this week.
Joint-venture partners Recyk and Meplas have released plans covering the opening of a new Category 3 waste recycling plant.
Styrenics specialist Ineos Styrolution has launched its Eco family of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) grades with recycled content and has entered into a collaboration with Austrian recycler Bage Plastics for the supply of recyclates.
Virgin Sport, part of the UK-based Virgin Group and organiser of London’s largest half marathon, has reported that it has eliminated 500,000 plastic bottles from across its three UK races.
According to a report published by Letsrecycle.com, and confirmed by documentation available in the National Archives, plastics recycler Plasticity (Worldwide) has gone into voluntary liquidation.
BASF SE is upping its plastics recycling activities with a planned €20m investment in Quantafuel, a Norwegian company specialised in the pyrolysis of mixed plastic waste and purification of pyrolysis oil.
Consumer goods giant Unilever has pledged that it will halve its use of virgin plastics by 2025, reflecting a fundamental rethink of its products and a shift towards new business models and materials.
European Plastics Convertors (EuPC) has urged European member states to reject a budget proposal by the European Commission which introduces national contributions based on unrecycled plastics packaging for the multiannual financial framework 2021 – 2027.
Ecoplast, an Austrian mechanical recycling business recently acquired by Borealis AG, has upgraded its processing plant in Wildon, Austria, with a new ultramodern polyethylene (PE) film recycling line.
A small-scale PET recycling project — but one with some large-scale names behind it — is creating sample bottles partially made from marine debris.
After another technical tweak, the Ocean Cleanup's marine sweeper is doing its intended job in the Pacific Ocean and collecting garbage from the size of large ghost nets down to microplastics as small as 1 millimeter, according to the Dutch nonprofit group.
Swiss chemicals company Clariant AG has teamed up with pigment supplier Merck KGaA and polymer producer Sabic to develop laser-marking technology and materials to ease the recycling process for flexible polyethylene (LDPE, LLDPE) packaging film.
German blow moulding and packaging machinery supplier Krones AG and sorting specialist Stadler Anlagenbau GmbH have joined forces to bring PET recycling to clients worldwide.