Recycling
Greenback Recycling Technologies Ltd. plans to open 300 plants in the next two decades to handle hard-to-recycle plastic-aluminum laminates, its founder and CEO says.
PureCycle Technologies Inc. has spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars to get to this point: solvent purification of used polypropylene.
The company has been working for months with the Augusta Economic Development Authority to win approval to use land owned by the agency to build a second solvent-based polypropylene recycling facility in the United States.
The expansion will help parent company Azek boost recycled content of decking and other building materials.
Partners in the Enval Ltd. plant aim to process 6,000 metric tons of flexible packaging in the plant's first year of operations.
After experiencing success with a pilot recycling project in El Paso, Texas, thermoformer D6 Inc. has decided to take it further.
A new report from Greenpeace USA claims that recycling increases the toxicity of plastics.
A new ABC News report as well as work by environmental group The Last Beach Cleanup indicate used plastic bags returned by consumers for recycling are instead being trashed.
The Federal Trade Commission is hearing calls from some state governments and the EPA to limit the chasing arrows on plastic resin ID codes and take a skeptical view on green marketing for chemical recycling.
The Australian government is allowing some companies to export recycled material, but warns the industry that it must come up with its own home-grown solutions.
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