Plastics
First waste company joins new OPRL membership category
| Veolia has become the first company to join On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) under the recently introduced waste management company membership category.
APK’s LDPE recyclate integrated into laminated tubes
| Huhtamaki Flexible Packaging Europe uses polyethylene (PE) recyclate by German Recycler APK for laminated tube applications.
Mixed market reaction to EU €800/tonne plastics charge
| The EU's €800/tonne plastic packaging waste charge, passed by the EU Council last week and which takes effect from January, sent shockwaves through the market because of both its size and narrow timeframe to implementation.
Chemical recycling of polyurethane waste
| “FOAM2FOAM: Circular Economy of Polyurethane Foams Via Chemical Recycling” is a project financed by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under the Retos Colaboración (Collaboration Challenges) programme, part of the National Programme for Research Aimed at the Challenges of Society.
Towards harmonized certification of plastics packaging recyclability
| RecyClass welcomes Recoup, SUEZ.Circpack, plastship, Circular Analytics, AIMPLAS, Veolia PET Germany GmbH and REDILO as Certification Bodies who will apply RecyClass method for assessing the recyclability of plastics packaging.
Study: Plastic waste management market with continious growth
| According to Persistence Market Research, the long-term outlook on the global plastic waste management market will remain positive with the plastic waste management market value expected to increase at a CAGR of 3.9% during the forecast period 2018 – 2026.
Rapid action needed to transpose SUP Directive
| An assessment from the #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement,reveals that very few EU countries are on track for timely and ambitious transposition of the EU Directive on single-use plastics.
Recycled plastic market to register exponential growth during pandemic
| Persistence Market Research in its upcoming report titled ‘Recycled Plastic Market: Global Industry Analysis 2012 – 2016 and Forecast 2017 – 2025’, projects the recycled plastic market to be worth just over US$ 30 billion by 2025.
New design guidelines for flexible packaging
| Produced by the Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX) initiative - a partnership of over 160 European companies, associations, and organisations - the Designing for a Circular Economy (D4ACE) guidelines have been developed collaboratively with the entire flexible packaging value chain.
Carbonlite expands capacity at Dallas Plant
| CarbonLITE, the world’s largest recycler of plastic beverage bottles, has expanded capacity at its Dallas plant in order to provide more recycled PET to its customers.
New sorting system for waste plastics by Sesotec
| Sesotec has developed a new sorting system for recycling plastic bottles and trays: Varisort+.
Improvement of output quality in film washing systems
| The latest in a series of developments for PE film recycling from Lindner Washtech is the Film Examiner. It is placed directly in front of the extrusion phase as a final process to improve the product quality.
Fight against plastic bag pollution at risk
| EU Member States measures, which aim to cut the number of plastic bags used nationally, are granting too many exemptions, warned the Rethink Plastic alliance on the 11th International Plastic Bag Free Day.
New application for near-infrared spectroscopy solutions
| TrinamiX GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF, today announced it has developed a new application for its mobile Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy Solutions related to plastic sorting and recycling.
