All Recycling Technologies articles – Page 2
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ArticleMilliken and PureCycle release ‘fully sustainable’ PP resin concentrate to encourage lower-carbon production of plastic packaging
Milliken & Company has collaborated with PureCycle Technologies to create what is claimed to be the first fully sustainable concentrate for PP on the market, thought to have a 35% lower carbon footprint than virgin PP and enable customers to utilise higher amounts of recycled content.
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ArticleBühler and Pellenc ST join forces to open new centre for PET bottle and flake sorting
Bühler and Pellenc ST are collaborating on a front and back-end solution for PET bottle and flake sorting, hoping to improve and future-proof PET recyclers’ processing activities with a new Demo and Applications Centre opening in November.
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ArticleBorealis plans new advanced recycling plant to convert PO waste into high-performance polymers
Borealis is in the process of designing a commercial-scale advanced recycling plant in Schwechat, Austria, aiming to convert polyolefin-based post-consumer waste into high-performance polymers and work towards a circular economy.
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ArticleEuropean companies across plastics value chain collaborate on project to facilitate wider use of recycled plastic packaging
Nineteen European partners have united under Buddie-Pack, a reusable plastic packaging project aiming to promote the utilisation of recycled plastics by preserving their protective properties and developing new cleaning solutions – an effort reportedly backed by the European Union.
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ArticleDow Packaging aims to enable traceability in mechanical recycling of flexible packaging with R-Cycle digital product passport
Dow Packaging and Speciality Plastics is working alongside HP Indigo, Reifenhäuser, Cadel Deinking, and Karlville to implement the R-Cycle digital product passport into its pouch-to-pouch mechanical recycling concept, intending to improve its sorting and recycling processes by enabling traceability.
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ArticleTotalEnergies Corbion and TOMRA claim to have proven ‘easy’ sorting of PLA in mixed plastic waste streams
A sorting test carried out by TotalEnergies Corbion and TOMRA Recycling claims to have proven the feasibility of sorting PLA from other plastics in municipal mixed plastic waste streams.
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ArticleTotalEnergies and Indaver announce commercial agreement to supply recycled mixed polyolefin feedstock for contact-sensitive packaging
TotalEnergies has signed an agreement to purchase Indaver’s petrochemical feedstock generated from recycled mixed polyolefins; the company is now set to use it in contact-sensitive applications such as food packaging.
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ArticleSidel opens PET recycling pilot line with aim of increasing production of rPET food-contact bottles
Sidel has opened a new, small-scale PET recycling pilot line in Octeville, France, hoping to gain an understanding of and guide the packaging industry through the use of recycled PET.
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ArticleResults of NEXTLOOPP’s contamination study on post-consumer PP packaging to be submitted to food safety authorities
NEXTLOOPP has completed a study of background contamination of post-consumer PP packaging, with the results set to be submitted to the EFSA, USFDA, and UK FSA.
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ArticlePellenc ST aims to optimise sorting technology with combination of X-ray and artificial intelligence
Pellenc ST claims that its new instalment of Xpert technology combines a dual-energy transmission X-ray with machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence said to learn and remember data to improve the efficiency of metal and e-scrap waste sorting processes.
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ArticlePyrolysis: clearing the air around chemical recycling
In a recent study, a team of researchers from Ghent University laid out what they believe to be the most efficient route to gaining high-quality petrochemical feedstocks from mixed plastic packaging waste via pyrolysis. But what does that mean for packaging? Marvin Kusenberg, PhD student at the university’s Laboratory for Chemical Technology and a researcher on the project, tells us more about the present and future applications of this process when it comes to recycling.
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ArticleDow further invests in Mura Technology to convert hard-to-recycle plastics into hydrocarbon feedstocks
Mura Technology has announced an additional strategic investment from Dow to build more plastic recycling plants throughout the US and Europe, this time contributing towards a closed-loop system through the conversion of hard-to-recycle plastics into hydrocarbon feedstocks.
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ArticleThe ‘uncertain’ future of the European recycling chain
Energy prices are rising to the extreme and companies are struggling to keep up with the costs – could they be forced to abandon their sustainability goals to keep themselves afloat? Mark Victory, senior editor, Recycling at ICIS, walks us through the current financial landscape of the packaging industry.
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ArticleWinners of Hubbub and Starbucks’ Bring it Back fund to pilot six new packaging reuse schemes
The winners of environmental charity Hubbub and Starbucks’ Bring It Back fund have been announced today, with the prize money funding six new systems and solutions for sustainable packaging in the food and beverage industries.
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ArticleSIG and Tagaddod to collect used carton packs from food and household services in a reported ‘first’ for Egypt
SIG and Tagaddod are launching Recycle for Good, a new recycling initiative utilising tech-based solutions to collect and recycle used aseptic carton packs from household and food service waste streams in Egypt.
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ArticleNew study from Penn State University aims to adapt pyrolysis for mixed-plastic waste
Scientists at Penn State University claim that a new study has advanced the process of pyrolysis to incorporate hard-to-recycle mixed plastics such as multilayer food packaging, potentially spearheading new progress in the field of chemical recycling.
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ArticleSCS announces polystyrene recycling process aiming for complete circularity
Joint industry initiative Styrenics Circular Solutions claims to have developed a recycling process for foamed and extruded polystyrene trays, which it hopes will enable closed-loop recycling for polystyrene products.
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ArticleAmpacet and Pellenc ST enable digital separation of dark PET in current recycling waste streams
Ampacet and Pellenc ST are collaborating on REC-NIR-BLACK, a brand of alternative black masterbatch solutions said to allow PET packaging in dark colours to be recycled on existing recycling lines without compromising current sorting technology.
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ArticleHigh electricity costs will impact plastic conversion and production of packaging, warns EuPC
European Plastics Converters (EuPC) has expressed its concern that rising energy prices – with electricity costs said to have surged by 750% since the start of 2022 – will negatively impact plastic conversion in Europe.
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ArticlePFF Group successfully completes trial using NEXTLOOPP’s PPristine resin
PFF Group’s packaging division has completed a full-scale production trial using PPristine, NEXTLOOPP’s post-consumer recycled polypropylene (PP) resin.
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