Mechanical Recycling

In many respects, flexible packaging has a smaller environmental footprint than other formats, but recyclability remains a stumbling block.

The barrier pouch developed collaboratively by packaging technology company Amcor and Nestlé pairs polypropylene with a thin, transparent AmLite barrier coating.

The Association of Plastic Recyclers applauds the law, which is designed to reduce the amount of plastic waste in the environment, improve recycling rates, and create a larger market for recylate.

Triple Bubble technology enables the economical production of uniformly oriented, high-quality mono-material films that are directly sealable.

The company achieves a key milestone in its journey to become fully circular by 2025.

Responding to a document from the American Chemistry Council, Greenpeace characterizes chemical recycling as a bait-and-switch PR tactic meant to create the illusion of progress by industry.

Launch of the plant in Toluca, Mexico, is planned for the second half of 2021. Capacity will reach 15,000 tonnes of post-consumer recycled HDPE annually.

Materials supplier Trinseo and German packaging company Fernholz have collaborated on the development and commercialization of a new grade of post-consumer recycled polystyrene for form-fill-seal formulations.

Located in Europe, the site will be the largest PET recycling facility in the world, with the potential to produce the equivalent of approximately 4.2 billion food-grade beverage bottles from 100% recycled and infinitely recyclable PET annually.