All Recycling Technologies articles – Page 4
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ArticleUsing blockchain to ensure traceability in plastic waste streams
Circulor has announced a partnership with energy company TotalEnergies and Recycling Technologies, a chemical recycler of plastic, to develop a blockchain-enabled traceability solution for hard-to-recycle plastics (HTRP).
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ArticleINEOS Styrolution, Recycling Technologies and Trinseo progress plans for first polystyrene recycling plants in Europe
INEOS Styrolution, Recycling Technologies and Trinseo today claim to have reached a significant milestone in their plans to build commercial polystyrene (PS) recycling plants in Europe.
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ArticleNavigating flexible packaging’s many paths to a circular economy
Steve Gillman speaks to Dana Mosora, workstream lead at the Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX) project, about why the sector is now getting behind a strategy that backs both chemical and mechanical recycling.
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ArticleAgilyx interview: Moving chemical recycling forward
Chemical recycling: its potential to bring us ever closer to that goal of circularity is widely acknowledged. But we’re not quite there yet. Victoria Hattersley talks to Tim Stedman, CEO of advanced recycling specialist Agilyx, about the most logical
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ArticleInterview: The challenge of integrating recyclate in flexible packaging
The inclusion of recycled plastics into diverse packaging formats is a challenge for the plastics and packaging value chains.
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ArticleCEFLEX Quality Recycling Process to drive end market applications
With its Quality Recycling Process, CEFLEX is focusing on driving the end market applications for flexibles recyclates to help the industry meet its sustainability targets.
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ArticleAgilyx and AmSty announce certified circular recycling pathway for polystyrene
Agilyx, a leader in advanced recycling technology, and AmSty, the largest polystyrene producer in the Americas, have announced the successful completion of a fully circular pathway for polystyrene recycling.
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ArticleOn Second Thoughts ... Just going ‘mono’ won’t make plastic packaging circular
The growing pressure being placed on the plastics and packaging industries by the European Commission, NGOs, and consumers will lead to long-overdue changes in how plastic packaging is produced and recycled.
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ArticleUnilever, Recycling Technologies and Neste team up on chemical recycling project
Recycling Technologies, Neste, and Unilever have launched a collaborative project that aims to develop and harness chemical recycling to recover and reuse plastic packaging.
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ArticleSCS: Unlocking the potential of polystyrene
Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS) is value chain initiative whose mission is to transform the styrenics industry to achieve true circularity, and educate the wider world on the environmental benefits of these materials.
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ArticleA piece in the circular economy puzzle
Elisabeth Skoda explores some of the recent innovations in chemical recycling technology and shines a spotlight on collaborative efforts and prospects for the technology.
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ArticleThe startup investment: Henkel and Saperatec
Victoria Hattersley looks at Saperatec, a Germany-based startup that has developed a unique recycling technology, and which has just secured an investment from adhesives giant Henkel.
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ArticleThe chemical recycling start-up: OBBOTEC interview
As part of an ongoing series looking at a range of start-ups, Victoria Hattersley spoke to OBBOTEC’s Wouter van Neerbos about his company’s unique approach to chemical recycling.
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ArticleVeolia launches Sustainable Packaging Academy
As part of the drive to increase the circular economy and tackle the problem of packaging waste, Veolia is launching a Sustainable Packaging Academy.
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ArticleNeste and Ravago begin 'significant' chemical recycling collaboration
Neste and Ravago are joining forces to develop chemical recycling of plastic waste with the aim of reaching significant industrial scale. They have set a joint target to reach an annual capacity to process over 200,000 tons of waste plastic.
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ArticleACE announces increased recycling rate for beverage cartons in the European Union, alongside launch of recycling campaign
The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment has announced that the recycling rate for beverage cartons in the EU28 rose to 49% in 2018.
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ArticleChemCycling sources feedstock from post-consumer plastic waste
Mondi, in cooperation with chemical producer BASF and COROOS, one of the biggest European companies in the preservation of fruits, vegetables and pulses for premium A-brands and private label products, have cooperated on a pilot project.
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ArticlePureCycle transforms waste carpet into ultra-pure recycled polypropylene
PureCycle Technologies has successfully completed purified waste carpet from its Feedstock Evaluation Unit (FEU), transforming discarded carpet into clear, odourless, ultra-pure polypropylene (UPRP) resin.
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ArticleLIQUID ADDITIVE 'SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASES' PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF RECYCLED POLYMERS
A new liquid additive claims to reduce the polymer degradation that takes place during melt processing, 'substantially increasing' physical property retention in regrind as compared with unmodified material.
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ArticleConsortium to Support World’s First Enzymatic Technology for Plastics Recycling
Carbios and L’Oréal have announced a major partnership with Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe. The consortium was originally founded by Carbios and L’Oréal to bring recycling technology developed by Carbios to the market.