Plastics

On 2 February 2021, a truck filled with crude oil, which was recovered by chemically recycling reusable materials from Südpack, left the Recenso pilot plant in Germany.

AMI has announced that its four focused plastics industry exhibitions, which were scheduled to take place at Messe Essen in Germany on 1-2 June 2021, have now been postponed to 29-30 September 2021.

The certification verifies plastic waste traceability, conformity assessment, and calculation of recycled content in a recycling process.

VinylPlus, the Voluntary Commitment to sustainable development of the European PVC industry, unveils today a new collaborative project called VinylPlus Med.

The RECITURF Project, funded by the Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI), is developing new artificial turf recycling methods so this waste does not end up in landfills. New artificial turf can then be manufactured with the different plastics recovered from waste turf.

Today, Canada’s relationship to plastic waste fundamentally changed: the Canada Plastics Pact (CPP) launched to end plastic waste and pollution.

Johns Manville, a Berkshire Hathaway company and manufacturer of continuous filament glass fibers, has announced the launch of a thermal recycling unit for waste glass fibers in its Engineered Products plant in Trnava, Slovakia.

The Polymers for Europe Alliance was set up by the European Plastics Converters association (EuPC) in 2015 due to the shortage of polymers for converters in Europe

MotorNuts is a leading car parts and accessories retail specialist, supplying customers through an extensive online store.

Europe is falling behind on its race to meet the European Union (EU) target of 90 per cent collection of plastic bottles by 2030 according to new research by ICIS.

Unintentional loss of plastic pellets can occur at all stages along the value chain despite the application of the current standard environmental, safety and quality management controls.