Advanced Recycling

The recycling plant in Ironton, OH, reportedly will produce more than 105 million pounds of ultra-pure recycled PP annually.

Polystyrene waste currently is being transformed from solid form to liquid feedstock, called recycled styrene monomer (RSM), at the joint-venture facility Regenyx in Oregon.

The notice did not mention recent reports calling Loop Industries’ advanced recycling technology a "fiction" as a reason for the termination, but it certainly didn’t inspire Coca-Cola’s confidence in the project.

Bacardi plans to have PHA-based liquor bottles on store shelves by 2023, despite the material’s higher cost compared with conventional plastics and the reluctance of industrial composting facilities to accept the biopolymer.

With a capacity of 15,000 tonnes per year, the facility is expected to become operational in early 2023.

Loop Industries’ claim that its rPET is infinitely recyclable without losing any of its properties sounded too good to be true. And you know what they say about that!

On the day that Hindenburg Research released its report accusing Loop Industries of fraud, a class action lawsuit was filed against the advanced recycling technology company.