Recycling
Starlinger Unveils New PET Recycling Line
The recoSTAR PET Art line, unveiled at K Show 2022, offers advances in efficiency and uptime.
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K 2022: ‘We’ve Been Waiting 40 Years!’
With sustainability top-of-mind in the plastics industry, this was a ground-breaking show for builders of recycling equipment. It also prompted new thinking in thinwall injection molding.
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Canadian Project Shows Digital Watermarks Aid Sortation of Flexible Packaging
First North American demo of “invisible” digital watermarks for mixed-waste plastics sortation proves the technology’s effectiveness with films and flexibles.
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Innovative Bottle Design Recognized
Berry's tethered closure design received an award for Technological Excellence from the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.
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Testing Demonstrates Feasibility of Sorting PLA From Mixed Waste Streams
Tomra and Total Energies Corbion confirmed that PLA could be separated from other plastics.
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Joint Venture Will Build Largest Mechanical Recycling Plant in India
Lyondell Basell and Shakti Plastic Agreed to Build and Operate Plant to Process PCR
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Old Fishing Nets to Child’s Watering Can: Blow Molding rPE at K Show
High-quality marine recyclate is suited to continuous-extrusion blow molding without an accumulator head.
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Of Covered Bridges and Recycling
It may seem like a long way around to the subject of recycling, but a recent drive over an old bridge led to an opportunity to spread the new gospel of chemical recycling.
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Sidel Opens New R&D Hub to Study Design for Recycling PET Packaging
Sidel’s small-scale recycling line in France will study different PCR materials for bottle-to-bottle rPET recycling.
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Waste Plastics Must D-I-E
New research publications describe dehydrogenation, isomerization, ethenolysis as a pathway for polyethylene recycling.
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