The technical committee of the European PET Bottle Platform awarded a temporary endorsement to full-body sleeves used on household and personal care bottles for a period of three years.
Though ocean material is being recovered and some buying relationships for the resulting resin have been established, the overall OceanBound effort is still hitting serious economic roadblocks, notes journalist Jared Paben.
A coloring book published by Inteplast Group (Livingston, NJ) teaches kids about the science of recycling and explains that plastic bags have a value that should be recovered.
The catalytic recycling process selectively finds polyester material in the witches’ brew of waste material and repolymerizes it into new PET, said IBM.
L’Occitane Group (Manosque, France), a global manufacturer and retailer of natural cosmetics, and Montréal-based Loop Industries Inc., a technology innovator in sustainable plastics, have signed a multi-year, take-or-pay supply agreement for Loop...
Durablox Wall Systems (St. Paul, MN) is pitching its structural, interlocking blocks made with post-consumer plastic waste as an ‘eco-smart’ border barrier.
The Lehigh Valley–area plant will produce 80 million pounds of rPET pellets per year, making it one of the largest facilities of its kind in the world when it is fully operational in 2020.
The PVC Recycling in Hospitals program, developed by the Vinyl Council of Australia and sponsored by medical device OEM Baxter Healthcare, provides one pathway to effective recycling of the most widely used plastic in healthcare settings, PVC.
Kim Holmes, Vice President of Sustainability for the Plastics Industry Association (Washington, DC), was impressed by the turnout and the acknowledgement of speakers that “industry is backing meaningful solutions” for the plastic waste problem.
