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Plastics
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Carbios produces bottles from enzymatically recycled plastic
CLERMONT-FERRAND, France – Carbios has announced it has successfully produced the first bottles containing 100 percent recycled Purified Terephthalic Acid (rPTA) from textile waste that contains a high PET content. This result confirms the capacity of its technology to recycle…
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New material from bottle caps and labels
CENTURY CITY, California – CarbonLITE Holdings LLC, the world’s largest recycler of plastic beverage bottles, has developed a pelletized material using the caps and labels from the plastic bottles it recycles. It is targeting the injection molding industry with its…
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U.S. labs collaborate on plastic bottles
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico — Los Alamos National Laboratory is partnering with four other U.S. laboratories and four academic institutions in a new program to tackle the problem of plastic pollution. The partnership has been dubbed the BOTTLE Consortium for…
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Researchers working to ‘upcycle’ polymers
US$2.5 million U.S. Dept. of Energy grant is part of $27 million initiative to solve plastic recycling dilemma
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Merlin Plastics joins Polypropylene Recycling Coalition
DELTA, B.C. – Merlin Plastics has joined The Recycling Partnership’s Polypropylene Recycling Coalition. Merlin’s membership in the U.S.-based, industry organization will allow it to bring its 30 plus years of experience in the Canadian and US recycling plastics realm to…
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CleanFarms adds Alberta bag and twine collections sites
LETHBRIDGE, Alberta – As of early October, CleanFarms has added six new collection sites for empty agricultural grain bags and used twine for recycling. This increases the total number of collection locations in the ‘Alberta Ag-plastic. Recycle It!‘ pilot program…
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TOMRA calls for global plastic action
ASKER, Norway – TOMRA has backed calls for a United Nations treaty to address global plastic pollution. The Norway-headquartered company has signed an international corporate manifesto, The Business Call for a UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution, which calls on governments…
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SWANA releases research on state of plastics recycling
Silver Spring, Maryland – The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) has issued a new white paper for SWANA members, State of Plastic Waste Management in the United States and Canada, that gives a timely snapshot of the issue…
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Plastic converted to oil in project to raise awareness
TYLER, Texas – A non-profit in Hawaii has collected over 1.2 million plastic caps and lids and shipped them to Texas for conversion into oil. Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawaii (B.E.A.C.H.) co-founders Suzanne Frazer and Dean Otsuki spearheaded a campaign…
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Significant risk of EU missing plastic recycling targets
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has assessed a significant risk that the EU will not meet its plastic packaging recycling targets for 2025 and 2030
