Recycling

sustainability

Association of Plastics Recyclers Recognizes Cavitated PE Technology

Void Technologies’ VO+ PE Masterbatch Technology Achieves Critical Guidance Recognition

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k show

Starlinger Unveils New PET Recycling Line

The recoSTAR PET Art line, unveiled at K Show 2022, offers advances in efficiency and uptime.

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sustainability

K 2022: ‘We’ve Been Waiting 40 Years!’

With sustainability top-of-mind in the plastics industry, this was a ground-breaking show for builders of recycling equipment. It also prompted new thinking in thinwall injection molding.

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Recycling

Canadian Project Shows Digital Watermarks Aid Sortation of Flexible Packaging

First North American demo of “invisible” digital watermarks for mixed-waste plastics sortation proves the technology’s effectiveness with films and flexibles.

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Postconsumer

Innovative Bottle Design Recognized

Berry's tethered closure design received an award for Technological Excellence from the  Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.

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sustainability

Testing Demonstrates Feasibility of Sorting PLA From Mixed Waste Streams

Tomra and Total Energies Corbion confirmed that PLA could be separated from other plastics.

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Postconsumer

Joint Venture Will Build Largest Mechanical Recycling Plant in India

Lyondell Basell and Shakti Plastic Agreed to Build and Operate Plant to Process PCR

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Recycling

Old Fishing Nets to Child’s Watering Can: Blow Molding rPE at K Show

High-quality marine recyclate is suited to continuous-extrusion blow molding without an accumulator head.

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Recycling

Of Covered Bridges and Recycling

It may seem like a long way around to the subject of recycling, but a recent drive over an old bridge led to an opportunity to spread the new gospel of chemical recycling.

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sustainability

Sidel Opens New R&D Hub to Study Design for Recycling PET Packaging

Sidel’s small-scale recycling line in France will study different PCR materials for bottle-to-bottle rPET recycling.

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Blending & Dosing
Plastics Size Reduction
Process Cooling