15 organizations join Canada Plastics Pact

Canada Plastics Pact (CPP) has welcomed 15 new partners following last month’s release of it’s shared action plan to build a circular economy for plastics packaging in Canada. The…

Risk of devastating ‘own goals’ in the plastics supply chain

It is a statement of the obvious that 2020 – 2021 have been difficult years for global manufacturing. Within that context, the plastics industry has been particularly severely affected.

Joint venture to convert plastics to fuel

Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors LLC, and UK green-tech company, Clean Planet Energy, have formed a joint venture partnership to develop Clean Planet Energy USA ecoPlants in key North American markets

Supermarket paves using recycled bags

Supermarket chain Meijer has been trying a recycled polymer modified asphalt (RPMA) parking lot at its supercentre store in Holland, Michigan

Cleaning the ocean by searching the ‘net

OceanHero search engine users have helped recover 21 million ocean-bound plastic bottles

Wendy’s moving to fully recyclable cups

Wendy's is collaborating with Berry Global and LyondellBasell to move from plastic-lined paper cups with limited recyclability to single-substrate, clear plastic drink cups

The plastic recycling system is broken – here’s how we can fix it

For the plastics recycling industry, the pandemic was a bit like the tide going out, exposing its deep-rooted structural problems

McDonald’s moving away from plastics

McDonald’s Canada will introduce wooden cutlery, wooden stir sticks and paper straws to its more than 1,400 restaurants across the country by December 2021. The removal of these single-use…

Solvay shows proof of PVDC recycling

Proof of concept involves process to recycle PVDC bioriented film from post-industrial food packaging

Tomra opens flake testing center in Italy

On September 22, 2021, Tomra Recycling officially opened its new flake sorting Test Center, where the company will develop new flake sorting applications for polyolefins (PO) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET).