Tag: plastics

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 […]

October 16, 2019

As recyclers try to keep up with an influx of newly produced virgin plastics, major petrochemical companies that extract and process the fossil fuels used to make plastics have convinced consumers that they can recycle their way out of the […]

July 12, 2019

New innovations are coming to the world of packaging. And one of the latest is the Standcap Inverted Pouch. The pouches initially rolled out in 2015 with Daisy brand sour cream, according to The Washington Post. The pouch rolls down […]

July 8, 2019

America’s thirst for consumption is not matched by an appetite for recycling, reveals a new index identifying the country as the world’s top producer of waste and one of the worst of any industrialized nation for managing its trash. In […]

May 28, 2019

With criticism of plastic waste exports mounting in many developed nations, in the UK, the Recycling Association has said that exports of recycled materials have their place in part of a global economy, but that these need to be high-quality […]

May 21, 2019

In 2019 alone, the production and incineration of plastic will add more than 850 million metric tons of greenhouse gases (GHG) to the atmosphere—equal to the pollution from 189 new 500-megawatt coal-fired power plants. That’s according to a new report […]

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 […]

April 15, 2019

Unilever North America announced that 50 percent of the plastic used in its packaging will come from post-consumer recycled content. Unilever made the announcement last week during the Walmart Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting in Arkansas. In 2017, Unilever made the […]

March 27, 2019

Hawaii and New Jersey are considering some of the most stringent bans on plastic bags and Styrofoam containers in the country. According to a FOX News report, New Jersey’s proposed measure would ban Styrofoam beverage and food containers and plastic […]

February 21, 2019

Building on its commitment to developing sustainable laundry solutions, Tide announced its strategic partnership with international recycling leader TerraCycle. This will allow the new Tide Eco-Box packaging to be 100 percent recyclable from bag to box. The new Tide Eco-Box […]

February 4, 2019

Air Canada is reducing single-use plastics onboard aircrafts and in its workplaces as part of the company’s ongoing commitment to curtail waste. Starting in summer 2019, Air Canada will replace plastic with wood stir sticks in drinks served on all […]

January 29, 2019

In an effort to fill a void left by a plastics recycler that is pulling out of central Minnesota, Becker County is launching a partnership to pick up, bale and recycle farm plastics, boat wrap and greenhouse plastic. Under the […]

November 30, 2018

Recycling Technologies, a Swindon UK based company focused on recycling plastics into hydrocarbon products, has launched its second campaign to raise a minimum of £1.3 million through Crowdcube. The company said that it is seeking to build and open its […]

November 29, 2018

Since its launch in July 2013, PaintCare’s paint stewardship program in Connecticut has continued to expand and find growing success. To date, PaintCare has collected and processed more than 1,502,572 gallons of leftover architectural paint in Connecticut. The program is […]

November 26, 2018

Organisers of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2019 have extended the entry deadline for all eight award categories until Friday 14 December 2018 due to a flurry of last-minute entries. Judges for the competition were also unveiled and include Willemijn […]

November 16, 2018

In the US and Canada the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) and The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) announced today the release of the Report on Postconsumer PET Container Recycling Activity in 2017. The report cites a 2017 […]

October 30, 2018

The Board of Directors of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has issued a statement calling for the consumer goods industry to play a leading role in eliminating plastic waste on land and sea and endorses the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New […]

October 26, 2018

Plastic Energy Limited, a company with a process to recycle plastic waste into alternative fuels and oil, has set up its Technology HQ a London with the aim of establishing a global business. The company explained that it has developed […]

October 22, 2018

NextWave Plastics announces two new member companies, HP Inc. and IKEA, are joining its consortium of worldwide businesses committed to scaling the use of ocean-bound plastics by developing the first global network of ocean-bound plastics supply chains. The addition of […]

September 18, 2018

Product development engineers at Honda’s Research and Development facility in Raymond, Ohio, have a long history of using recycled post-industrial scrap material as insulation and sound-deadening materials in Honda and Acura products. More than a decade ago, engineers introduced basalt […]