Recycling
Interface Polymers Ltd. and Flexipol Ltd. have jointly won funding through a competition run by UKRI’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging challenge.
At the 10th VinylPlus Sustainability Forum, livestreamed from Brussels today, participants could look back at a successful first year of the new VinylPlus 2030 Commitment, the voluntary 10-year commitment adopted last year by the European PVC industry aimed at minimising the environmental impact of PVC production and manufacturing.
A six-year project in France to develop a recycling solution for monolayer and multilayer food packaging PET trays has led to a new technology that makes it possible to process the monolayer trays into a recycled product that is suitable for new tray production.
France is continuing to lead the way in the development of the polyethylene terephthalate chemical recycling industry in Europe, with a spate of new facility announcements set to build out capacity in the country.
In the lead-up to K 2022, the German Mechanical Engineering Industry Association, VDMA is conducting a series of interviews with leading businesspersons in the industry, under the title Way2K.
Last week, Orlando, Florida-based PureCycle Technologies announced the publication of its very first Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report.
The Chemours Company, a leader in, among others, titanium technologies, has announced that it has become a participant in the ongoing Remove2Reclaim project.
Design work is now under way on what is being touted as the world's largest pyrolysis plant, a project that has the support of a major petroleum company that will use output to make food-grade polymers.
TotalEnergies has partnered with Vanheede Environment Group on the supply of post consumer recycled - PCR - raw material, securing stable and constant feedstock availability for its production of circular polymers.
In the lead-up to K 2022, the German Mechanical Engineering Industry Association, VDMA is conducting a series of interviews with leading businesspersons in the industry, under the title Way2K.
Braskem S.A. has signed an agreement through its wholly-owned subsidiary Braskem Netherlands B.V to form a joint venture with Terra Circular, the parent company of Dutch recycler ER Plastics.
CMG Granulators has announced a new collaboration for the distribution of recycling equipment and solutions in the Nordic region.
Velcro Companies has become the newest member of Cyclyx International, a post-use plastic feedstock supply chain initiative founded by chemical recycler Agilyx Corporation and ExxonMobil Chemical Company as a means to promote and increase the rate of plastics recycling.
In recent years, ocean-bound plastic, plastic waste that originates within 50 km of the coast and is likely to end up in the ocean, has increasingly been recognised as a potentially recoverable, recyclable resource.