Postconsumer
Brush Up on Recycling in Honor of America Recycles Day
Plastics are an extremely important part of our daily lives—and their proper disposal is extremely important as well. Recycling is the key to saving energy and keeping plastics out of oceans and landfills. In honor of America Recycles Day, check out Recycling 101 on This Is Plastics to brush up on the basics, and go beyond to see how the industry is innovating to recycle more plastics or turn these resources into energy.
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Henkel, BASF Collaborate on Chemical Recycling
Henkel is evaluating further opportunities for integrating chemically recycled plastic in its product packaging.
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Feeding/Blending: New Feeders, Blenders for Regrind And Wire/Cable at K 2019
Movacolor brought out several new gravimetric systems.
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Opaque White Bottle-to-Bottle Recycling Proven with 100% rPET
Swiss masterbatch producer Sukano and French PET bottle machinery builder Sidel collaborated on a project to confirm the bottle-to-bottle recyclability of opaque white light-barrier PET dairy bottles.
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America's Big Beverage Companies Announce New Recycling Initiative
Through the Every Bottle Back initiative, beverage companies are stepping up efforts to reclaim as much plastic packaging as possible to ensure it is remade into new PET bottles.
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Eastman to Use Reclaimed Polyester Carpet as Feedstock for Chemical Recycling
The reclaimed polyester carpet will be collected and processed by Circular Polymers, transported by railcar, and then upcycled by Eastman to produce new materials with certified recycled content.
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Neste and Remondis Partner on Chemical Recycling
Neste will work with recycler Remondis to build an ecosystem around chemical recycling.
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The Recycling Partnership Calls for $500M to Transform U.S. Recycling System
The report calls for $500 million in funding by 2025 and is inspired and endorsed by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s (EMF) New Plastics Economy initiative.
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Try This Approach to Clean Up Your Recycled Material
CO2 can be used as a totally “green” solvent to remove many kinds of contamination in recycled plastics without the need for toxic solvents.
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What Is the Circular Economy?
In this video from K 2019, hear NOVA Chemicals, TOMRA, Covestro, Rapid Granulator and SABIC each discuss plastics’ role in the circular economy.
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