Plastics
Recycling Post-consumer Waste and Film Waste
| For the production of high-quality regrind Herbold Meckesheim has installed a model line for Rodepa in the Netherlands that was launched at the beginning of the year. High-quality granulate for film thicknesses beneath 30 my is produced from a mix of plastic waste.
Higher recycling rates can be achieved with quality sorting
| Plastics Recyclers Europe was celebrating its 20th birthday during the Annual Meeting which took place on 16 and 17 June in Cascais, Portugal. The event gathered over 150 participants from all over Europe who were debating on improving plastic waste sorting.
Researchers discover new way to recycle plastic waste into liquid fuel
| Researchers from China's Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and the University of California, Irvine have devised a new way of recycling millions of tons of plastic garbage into liquid fuel.
65% of plastics recycling professionals vote to remain in the EU
| Recoup, the plastics recycling member based organisation, asked visitors and exhibitors and Plastics Recycling Expo (held last week in Telford), whether the UK should remain or brexit from the EU by recycling their empty plastic drink bottles through the voting bins.
Dow unveils new stand-up pouch powered by RecycleReady technology to meet consumer demand
| Based on its new Recycleready Technology, The Dow Chemical Company has rolled out a new stand-up pouch made with Retain polymer modifiers in order to meet consumer demand for recyclability. The new packaging product ensures recyclability of polyethylene-based barrier packaging as part of existing grocery store drop-off recycling programs.
European Bioplastics supports new E.U. report on revised waste legislation
| Germany-based European Bioplastics e.V., an association representing the bioplastics industry in Europe, has supported a new report by the European Parliament on revised waste legislation that has highlighted the role of bioplastics to help transition to a circular economy.
Michael Kundel re-elected EuPC President
| The European Plastics Converters (EuPC) association unanimously re-elected Michael Kundel as its president. Kundel, CEO of Renolit, is renewing his two-year term as EuPC President.
Clouds and questions marks over Indian and Chinese scrap imports
| India’s decision to ban plastic scrap imports had left the market “in limbo” and was likely to result in substantial job losses, not least among those of the country’s recycling units which relied on supplies from overseas, according to BIR Plastics Committee Chairman Surendra Patawari Borad of Gemini Corp.
Making polymer sorting more efficient
| The Bühler Group has announced the Sortex E PolyVision that can identify same-colour polymer contaminants by analysing their chemical signatures.
Steinert presents system for the pure separation of black plastics at IFAT 2016
| Steinert Group launches the new optical sorting system UniSort BlackEye on the market.
Amut Group presents solutions for the plastics material at IFAT
| Amut Group will present at its booth C1.240 the Da-Labeller DLB 60 and the mobile Ballistic Separator SBS 201.
Prof. Dr. jur. Helmut Maurer speaking on The Big Challenge for the plastic industry
| Speaking on the big challenge for the plastic industry, Dr Maurer believes that it is clear that the industry needs to act urgently as in developing countries plastics either end up in landfill or in nature.
Rigid Plastics Recycling Surges 27%
| The American Chemistry Concil announced that the recycling of post-consumer rigid plastics surged 276 million pounds, or 27 percent, in 2014 to reach a new high of over 1.28 billion pounds for the year.
Waste Pro Selects CP Group for Single Stream Recycling Facility
| Waste Pro Selects CP Group for Single Stream Recycling Facility
