sustainability
U.S. Collection of Postconsumer PET Hits All-Time High
PET bottle collection rates rebounded in 2021 after declining in the preceding years.
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Pilot Program Will Recycle Contaminated Materials
GreeNovel announced commercialization of technology to remove chemicals of concern.
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New Pepsi Goal Would Deliver 20% of Beverage Servings Via Reusable Models by 2030
PepsiCo will pursue multiple strategies to reduce proportion of single use packaging.
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Plastics in the Home (Mine), Continued
What to do with a growing stock of reusable plastic shopping bags and a pile of plastic cutlery packs from restaurant takeout?
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Vecoplan Presents Cleaning Line
Cleanic is a demonstration and test facility for cleaning recycled materials.
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Clothing Reseller Finds Recycling Pathway
A partnership between ThredUp and Azek will recycle clothing bags to composite deck products.
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"First" Bacteria to Upcycle Single-Use PET Heading to Space
Collaborators at Seed Health, MIT, NREL, Weil Cornell and Harvard have built an autonomous biological system which converts PET to an environmentally-benign “new” plastic.
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CJ Biomaterials and NatureWorks Sign Master Collaboration Agreement on Development of New Bioplastics
The two companies will jointly develop new sustainable materials based on CJ’s amorphous PHA and NatureWorks’ PLA resins.
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Recycling Challenge Gets Students Engaged
Trex program encourages kids to compete and learn about recycling.
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Advanced Recycling: Beyond Pyrolysis
Consumer-product brand owners increasingly see advanced chemical recycling as a necessary complement to mechanical recycling if they are to meet ambitious goals for a circular economy in the next decade. Dozens of technology providers are developing new technologies to overcome the limitations of existing pyrolysis methods and to commercialize various alternative approaches to chemical recycling of plastics.
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