Advanced Recycling

Hi-Cone, a global supplier of plastic can-rings, has partnered with recycling technology company Avangard Innovative to put can rings in a recycled production loop and keep them out of landfills and the environment.

The launch of NextLooPP creates circularity for food-grade polypropylene (PP) food packaging from post-consumer plastic.

The inventor of Bubble Wrap has signed a collaboration agreement with advanced recycling technology company Plastic Energy and made an equity investment in its parent company.

The Japanese company has also made recent acquisitions in engineering plastics recycling and molding in Europe to complete the circle.

Recycling Technologies will adapt its pyrolysis-based depolymerization process to the commercial recycling of polystyrene.

San Francisco–based Brightmark wants to procure 1.2 million tons per year of post-use plastic types 1 through 7 from the eastern half of the United States to recycle into fuel and new materials at its plastics renewal plants.

ELG Carbon Fibre and Aerocircular N.V. join forces to establish a closed-loop recycling scheme for a material typically shredded and incinerated, or landfilled.

The updated Greenware cup and portion cup stock print design instructs customers to properly dispose of Greenware packaging in commercial composting facilities.

The “contribution” to the EU budget is designed to incentivize member states to increase recycling of plastic waste, according to the European Commission. It will, in fact, do the opposite, responds the European Plastics Converters association.

Through the Rubbermaid Food Storage Recycling Program in association with TerraCycle, consumers can send in any brand of well-used glass and plastic food-storage containers for recycling free of charge.