Plastics
DEMETO welcomes news members
| DEMETO, the chemical recycling project for PET, has announced Kolon and Remondis as new members of its Industrial Advisory Board.
Plastic war inducing shift from single-use to reusable water bottles
| A recent market study published provides a holistic analysis of various trends, drivers, and restraints of the reusable water bottles market.
First turn-key plastics recycling facility for Cypress
| PCC Recycling, a Poullaides Group company, is taking an important step towards a circular economy with modern recycling technology from Austria and Germany. The flexibility of the recycling facility solves several of the island’s problems at once.
Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe join Consortium
| On behalf of the Consortium, Carbios, a company pioneering new, bio-industrial solutions to reinvent the lifecycle of plastic and textile polymers, and L’Oréal , worldwide beauty leader, are pleased to announce a major partnership with Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe.
Monitoring recyclates for europe (MORE) has been launched
| MORE, the single, unified digital platform to monitor the uptake of recycled polymers into products, is available to be used by converters since the 25th of April 2019.
AD REM to build largest facility for plastic recycling in Japan
| Group Galloo’s equipment manufacturing company Ad Rem will be responsible for building Japan’s largest and most advanced plastic recycling facility.
Container deposit system provides national solution to Australia’s war on waste
| Adelaide-based technology and engineering company SAGE Automation is increasing production of its smart container deposit systems on the back of increased demand from Queensland.
Sudden ban strikes Indian plastics recyclers hard
| Rumours of dumping of substandard plastics waste into India after Chinese ban on such items are making the life of plastics recyclers and reprocessors miserable and stuck up at work.
Winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe announce
| The winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2019 were announced today at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe, held at the RAI Amsterdam in The Netherlands.
Nestlé wins Design for Recycling Award
| According to ISRI, Nestlé Pure Life bottle is the only major nationally distributed bottled water
made using 100 percent recycled plastic.
Breakthrough in chemical recycling of polystyrene
| Styrenics producer Ineos Styrolution has announced today that it has completed the first successful test runs producing virgin polystyrene from previously depolymerised material.
Engineering plastics: a growing recycling market
| Plastics Recyclers Europe has published the strategy paper on the state of play of the technical plastic parts recycling.
BIR: New chairman for Plastics Committee
| BIR President Ranjit Baxi has appointed Henk Alssema, Chairman of Vita Plastics in the Netherlands, as new Chairman of the BIR Plastics Committee.
Parliament seals ban on throwaway plastics by 2021
| On Wednesday, Parliament approved a new law banning single-use plastic items such as plates, cutlery, straws and cotton buds sticks.
