The consortium aims to speed up commercialization of BP Infinia technology, which turns opaque and difficult-to-recycle PET plastic waste into recycled feedstock.

Shell’s ambition is to use one million tonnes of plastic waste a year in its global chemical plants by 2025.

Supported by global leaders in the beverage industry, the Every Bottle Back initiative will invest nearly $3 million to improve collection, recycling and processing infrastructure and outreach in the Metroplex region.

While single-use plastic retail bag usage will continue to decline through 2023, overall U.S. sales of retail bags in value terms is forecast to grow 4.7% per year to $42 billion in 2023.

Low-cost “bottle within a bottle” that prolongs beverage temperature also qualifies as a recyclable, reusable and refillable container.

Until the development of PRISM technology there hasn’t been an effective way to differentiate between a plastic bleach or milk bottle of the same polymer type.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas provides countless examples of why plastics for electronic applications will be a $115 billion market by 2023.

Licella (Sydney, Australia) and BioLogiQ (Idaho Falls, ID) join forces to accelerate commercialization of Cat-HTR technology in Australia to chemically recycle previously unrecyclable post-consumer plastic.

A couple of months ago, plastics engineer Eric Larson began monitoring his use of PE film and documenting his effort to recycle as much of it as he could in a series of articles in PlasticsToday. The experience, he confesses, has been a royal pain...

The grant is part of a first-ever $2.2 million public-private collaboration to increase recycling education with a goal of doubling Michigan’s recycling rate to 30% by 2025.