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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.
Milliken will help fund the coalition’s efforts to improve recycling infrastructure, encourage curbside recycling, and ensure a robust supply of high-quality recycled polypropylene for packaging applications.