Recycling

During the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC-4) hosted in Ottawa, the Government of Canada announced over $3.3 million in funding to support Canadian organizations developing solutions to address plastic pollution.

Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim will combine forces to display plastics recycling solutions at IFAT 2024.

The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) has named the winners of its 2024 Plastic Sustainability Innovation Awards recognizing the innovations in plastics manufacturing that further environmental advantages in design, material, and end-of-life management.

OMV and Borealis have entered into long-term feedstock supply agreements for their recycling facilities with TOMRA Feedstock, a subsidiary of TOMRA. These agreements will help ensure a consistent supply of sustainable and high-quality raw materials for OMV Group's recycling operations. OMV will process feedstock supplied from TOMRA Feedstock plants in its ReOil plants in Austria, while Borealis will process feedstock produced by TOMRA at its mechanical recycling operations in Europe. The feedstock will be produced from mixed post-consumer plastic material otherwise lost to landfill and incineration at a sorting facility being developed by TOMRA in Germany.

Amid dwindling legal export markets for plastics generated from mixed electronics waste in the U.S., CompuCycle has developed a shredding, cleaning, and sorting system to produce materials that can be recycled domestically.

2022 was an unprecedented year for the PET and rPET value chains, as shown in the latest PET Market in Europe: State of Play report by Plastics Recyclers Europe, UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe, Natural Mineral Waters Europe (NMWE), Petcore Europe, and ICIS Consulting. Despite extreme uncertainty, figures show advancement in the market. However, the disparities in the collection, sorting, and recycling of PET around Europe will need to be addressed to achieve the EU recycling targets in the mid and long term.

Recyclers recovered just over five billion pounds of post-consumer plastic for recycling in the United States (U.S.) in 2022 with the vast majority staying in North America to be processed and remanufactured into new products, according to new data released today by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), ISRI, and the U.S. Plastics Pact. Prepared and based on surveys conducted by Stina Inc. and the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR), the 2022 U.S. Post-consumer Plastic Recycling Data Dashboard details U.S. sourced post-consumer plastic recovered for recycling.

Eastman has named Longview, Texas as the site for its second U.S. molecular recycling facility.

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and RecyClass have celebrated a successful first year of collaborative efforts to accelerate the global alignment of Design for Recycling guidance with the publication of a report detailing accomplishments and key milestones.

There is a growing demand for products packaged in recyclable packaging among consumers, especially in developed economies. Considering this, beverage manufacturers in the U.S. are increasingly shifting from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) to recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) bottles to help lower carbon emissions and advance the circular economy, says GlobalData.