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sustainability

Agilyx: Recycling Must Continue Operating During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Agilyx CEO Joe Vaillancourt discusses the status of the company's operations and the importance of recycling during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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sustainability

PLASTICS Cancels Re|focus Sustainability & Recycling Summit; Some Aspects Move to Virtual Platforms

The next summit will be co-located with NPE2021: The Plastics Show May 17–21, 2021.

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sustainability

APR and NERC Announce New Government Recycling Demand Champion Program

The Government Recycling Demand Champions, a companion to APR’s well-established Recycling Demand Champions Campaign, will be tailored to state, regional and local governments around the U.S. 

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sustainability

Transforming Recycled Plastic into Additives for Industrial and Consumer Products

GreenMantra out of Canada is a rapidly growing clean technology company that produces specialty polymer additives from recycled plastics.

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Postconsumer

'Bubble Barrier' Cleans Plastics Waste from Amsterdam Canal

Novel system ‘airs out’ plastic waste from waterways.  

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sustainability

How to Optimize Usage of Recycled Material

Processors need to “engineer” feeding properties similar to virgin pellets into their regrind to efficiently and economically utilize more of their scrap.

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Postconsumer

Department of Energy Announces $25 Million for Plastics Recycling R&D

To further advance the Plastics Innovation Challenge, DOE also announced the launch of the new BOTTLE Consortium. 

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best practices

Why—and How—You Should be Tracking Your Regrind

Ask yourself these questions to decide whether you need to implement a system to manage your scrap.  

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sustainability

Recycling: New Free-Fall Metal Separator

This system is optimized for applications in plastics, especially for granulate and compound producers.

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Postconsumer

Recycling: Advances in Direct PET Decontamination

The system is an advanced development of the Infrared Rotary Drum used in hundreds of industrial applications. 

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