Recycle

Petcore Europe Thermoforming Conference 2024, scheduled to take place in Granada (Spain) on 25 and 26 June, will be dedicated to the circularity of PET thermoformed packaging. The objective of this event is to promote thermoforms collection and recycling and specifically tray to tray circularity...

Icis, a global source of commodity intelligence, together with Plastics Recyclers Europe, Petcore Europe, Unesda Soft Drink Europe and Natural Mineral Waters Europe, launched the “State of Play 2024” study, offering a detailed examination of the PET market in Europe in 2022. The comprehensive study includes...

Eastman announced it has achieved on-spec initial production and is generating revenue from its new molecular recycling facility in Kingsport, Tennessee. The company expects to ramp up production of the new facility over the coming months and enable growth across a wide range of markets. Achieving this...

Ganesha Ecopet, a division of the largest Indian PET recycler, Ganesha Group, entrusted Sorema, the division of Previero Srl specialized in the construction of plastic recycling plants, with the realization of a PET bottle-to-bottle recycling plant in India. It is a pioneering project, the first of its kind in the...

Plastics Europe published its biennial “The Circular Economy for Plastics: A European Analysis” report. Its data provides an overview of European plastics production, conversion, consumption, and waste management, and includes an analysis of plastics production from non-fossil sources, and recycling technologies...

According to Conai (the Italian packaging consortium) initial forecasts, the year that has just begun will see an increase in the percentage of recycled packaging placed on the market, exceeding the 70% required by Europe by 2030. “After a difficult 2023, we can look to the future with more optimism. But...

Amut recently installed the first of three post-consumer PET bottle recycling lines at a food and beverage company's plant in Lima, Peru. The line has a capacity of 6,000 kg per hour and is designed to recover rPET for the production of new bottles. The second and third lines, both 3,000 kg per hour, will be built at...

Sabic welcomed queen consort of the Netherlands, Máxima Zorreguita Cerruti, to the Sabic and Plastic Energy advanced recycling unit and the Sabic-owned hydrotreater unit. The visit formed part of a broader working visit of the Queen to the Chemelot industrial site in Geleen, the Netherlands, to...

With two Starlinger recoSTAR PET bottle-to-bottle recycling lines, Piedmont-based Dentis Recycling Italy expanded its product portfolio and now offers food-grade rPET pellets in addition to hot-washed PET bottle flakes. In 2021, one of the Italy’s biggest recyclers of post-consumer PET bottles initiated a...

The capital city of Kenya, Nairobi, generates more than 2,400 tons of solid waste every day, in entire Kenya this is estimated to be more than 22,000 tons of waste per day.

Acquisita da RadiciGroup poco più di tre anni fa, Zeta Polimeri, azienda italiana attiva nel recupero di fibre sintetiche e materiali termoplastici con sede a Buronzo (Vercelli), è entrata pienamente a far parte del gruppo con il nome Radici EcoMaterials.

Per ottenere polimeri di elevata qualità nei processi di riciclo, la filtrazione è una delle fasi più importanti. A tale scopo Break Machinery ha sviluppato il sistema DUO a doppio filtro che permette di ottenere la massima produttività garantendo un’alta qualità del prodotto finito.

A world leading manufacturer of plastics washing and recycling systems, the Italian company Sorema, in collaboration with the Austrian manufacturer Starlinger, installed a recycling plant for post-consumer PET bottles at the factory of the Congolese recycler Ok Plast.

An Italian manufacturer of machines for the recovery of plastic waste, Tria is developing together with the Swedish company CombiQ a new service that can be activated both for new purchases and for granulators already in the customer's possession, which will be called Tcloud.

Shortlisted finalists in the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2023 were announced in a livestream event. The winners of the seven awards will be announced on 11 May, the second day of the Plastics Recycling Show Europe at the RAI Amsterdam, where all 47 finalists will be showcased.

Borealis, one of the world’s leading providers of advanced and circular polyolefin solutions, has acquired a majority stake in Renasci, a Belgium-based provider of innovative recycling solutions and the creator of the novel Smart Chain Processing (SCP) concept. Borealis announced the acquisition of a 10% stake in Renasci in July 2021; now...

Officially unveiled at the K 2022 fair, Tecnova new Liontek closed-loop densifier is intended for the in-line and offline batch processing of post-consumer and post-industrial plastic waste or of plastics from washing systems. The densifier plays a fundamental role in the processing cycle of post-consumer and post-industrial...

Recovering crude oil from plastic: British company Mura Technology is pursuing this goal with the HydroPRS process to advance the circular economy of plastics. This is a concern that motion plastics specialist igus also shares. igus has been supporting Mura’s project as an investor since 2020. The first HydroPRS plant for...

TotalEnergies announced the construction of a new production line of high-performance recycled polypropylene for automotive in its polymer plant in Carling, France. Since 2016, the Carling - Saint-Avold petrochemical platform is producing value-added compounds primarily intended for the automotive industry. The start-up of a new line...

Solvay has recently teamed up with French startup Ostium in a joint project designed to enable the mechanical recycling of end-of-life single-use surgical instruments molded in glass-fiber reinforced Ixef polyarylamide (PARA) from Solvay’s portfolio of specialty polymers. The initiative is the first for valuable polymers to be...