Tag: plastic recycling

January 18, 2023

Pinning down the real recycling rates in the U.S. is difficult. EPA’s last comprehensive report is based on 2018 figures and, since then, there’s been a patchwork of studies from different sources looking through different lenses. But amidst the gray […]

January 12, 2023

A new white paper from the National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA) aims to dispel the plastic recycling myths perpetuated by mainstream media outlets. These reports are harming rather than helping the public as they search for accurate information about […]

October 26, 2022

Greenpeace research estimates that only around 5 percent of the plastic waste produced in the United States in 2021 was recycled. In total, 51 million tons of plastics were discarded by Americans during the year, and 95 percent of that […]

October 17, 2022

How to deal with all the plastic waste we are generating, that is a question the waste management industry asked themselves well before the pandemic caused even more waste than anticipated. One option might be chemical recycling. But most recyclers […]

October 13, 2022

California recently passed a law aiming to take the burden of plastic recycling off of consumers. The law transfers responsibility to the plastic producers, however, critics aren’t sure this will solve the problem at hand. With high goals, the law […]

May 17, 2022

Boxed Water Is Better – the most renewable packaged water in the water aisle – is calling for industries and individuals to flex their purchase power for the sake of the planet based on alarming new data sources that reveal […]

May 10, 2022

Norwalk, CT Freepoint Eco-Systems LLC (“Freepoint Eco-Systems”) is committed to helping develop the circular plastic economy. To realize this mission of turning waste plastic, that would otherwise be landfilled or incinerated, into recycled materials, Freepoint Eco-Systems has announced the construction […]

February 17, 2022

PolyREC, the association that monitors, verifies and reports on European recycled plastics, is now recognised as an official data collector for the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA). Thanks to RecoTrace data, PolyREC will report on the progress of the entire European […]

December 22, 2021

Green Science Alliance has received license agreement from Fukuoka University to carry out the revolutionary plastic waste recycling technology which can recover the mechanical strength especially in the toughness of plastic waste relatively simple and effectively. Nowadays, plastic waste is […]

December 13, 2021

America’s plastic makers called for policymakers, plastic converters, and brand companies to increase the adoption of a credible system to verify the recycled plastic produced by advanced recycling technologies and used in new products and packaging. Having credible, third-party standards […]

December 10, 2021

America’s plastic makers today called for policymakers, plastic converters, and brand companies to increase the adoption of a credible system to verify the recycled plastic produced by advanced recycling technologies and used in new products and packaging. Having credible, third-party […]

October 12, 2021

ExxonMobil plans to build its first large-scale plastic waste recycling facility in Texas to be able to better tackle the problem of plastic waste the environment. A smaller, temporary facility, is already operational and producing commercial volumes of certified circular […]

May 24, 2021

Cyclyx International, a consortium-based feedstock management company with a mission to help increase the recycling rate of post-use plastic from 10% to 90%, announced today that North American Plastics, a family of leading brands in plastics distribution, has become a […]

March 22, 2021

“The plant embodies the principles of the -platform founded by Borealis to research innovations in the field of circular plastics,” explains Lucrèce Foufopoulos, Borealis Executive Vice President Polyolefins, Innovation & Technology and Circular Economy Solutions. “We offer brand owners and […]

November 20, 2020

Everyone hates plastic, or so it seems. Several months ago, Frontline, PBS’s investigative news program, added to the fire when it ran Plastic Wars. NPR followed up several months later with an abbreviated version of that show. Both depict plastic […]

August 31, 2020

Startup Algramo is helping low-income and plastic conscious consumers buy cleaning products without having to buy a whole new container. The service is ideal for low-income consumers, because they only need to by the amount of product they need for […]

December 13, 2019

The 2,000-foot-long floating tube that skims the ocean’s surface to collect plastic pollution has returned after weeks navigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Fast Company reports that after months of “research, failures and reconfigurations,” The Ocean Cleanup’s device brought back […]

November 25, 2019

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the launch of the Plastics Innovation Challenge, a comprehensive U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program to accelerate innovations in energy-efficient plastics recycling technologies. Plastics are used in thousands of products essential to modern […]

July 17, 2019

In 2015, plastics generation was 34.5 million tons in the U.S., which was 13.1 percent of municipal solid waste generation, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics, those commonly used in food packaging and polyester clothing, […]

May 13, 2019

With the May 10 vote to add new measures to restrict and bring disclosure to plastic waste trade through the U.N. Basel Convention, the years-long tremor shaking up plastic recycling became a massive earthquake. Countries will now have the right […]