Awards WM announces winners of design contest July 2, 2021 Six designers receive support to develop products from waste materials
Plastics Michelin creates tire fibre using enzymatic recycling April 23, 2021 Tested and applied Carbios’s enzymatic recycling process for PET plastic waste, creating a high-tenacity tire fibre
Recycled Content Spin Master toys to be recyclable in the U.S. April 9, 2021 Toronto-based toy maker has partnered with TerraCycle to make its toys and games recyclable
Business Operations CarbonLite files for bankruptcy protection March 9, 2021 CarbonLite Holdings LLC, has filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code
Circular Economy New tracking tool helps source recycled plastic February 9, 2021 With demand currently outstripping supply, particularly for food grade packaging plastics, many FMCGs, manufacturers and converters are finding sourcing the feedstock they require to hit regulatory and sustainability goals challenging.
Plastics LyondellBasell and SUEZ increase plastics recycling capacity December 28, 2020 ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands and PARIS – LyondellBasell, one of the world’s largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies and SUEZ, a supplier of environmental services, have jointly acquired Tivaco,…
Recycled Content LA pilots plastic asphalt December 23, 2020 Neo Founder and President Sean Weaver inspects the part of the road-recycling train that mixes his Neo polymer binder with the recycled asphalt aggregate to create the new Neo plastic…
Plastics Storopack makes packaging from post-consumer recycled expanded polystyrene December 16, 2020 METZINGEN, Germany – Storopack has delivered the first protective packaging made from 100 percent rEPS (recycled expanded polystyrene) to a customer. French medical supplies company Prevor is the first customer…
Plastics Loop Industries takes next step to manufacturing September 8, 2020 MONTRÉAL – Loop Industries is partnering with Chemtex Global Corporation and Invista Performance Technologies (IPT) to roll out manufacturing facilities that use Loop’s depolymerization technology. Infinite Loop manufacturing facilities will…
Material recovery Geomega looks to recycle rare earths from new U.S. plant July 16, 2020 MONTREAL – Quebec-based Geomega Resources Inc. has been designated the recycler for rare earth-containing production waste from USA Rare Earth’s future production of sintered neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) permanent magnets…
