A barrier solution that "alleviates concerns about multilayered packaging" has now been officially recognized by both the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) in the U.S. and Plastics Recyclers ...

The combined use of Coperion twin-screw extruders and EcoFresh silo degassing meets requirements for direct food contact.

Total, a France-based petrochemical company, has introduced a range of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) circular compounds with high levels of recycled content, which it will make available to its ...

TORONTO (Oct. 10, 9:30 a.m. ET) — For the second straight year, post-consumer high density polyethylene recycling has remained stagnant. The North American recycling rate for HDPE remained at 29.9 ...

Envision Plastics has begun full scale production of its recycled HDPE plastic resin for use in food and drink packaging. The US company has owned the technology to produce EcoPrime for many years but ...

Chemists at Argonne National Laboratory in DuPage County have worked out a new way to recycle certain plastics infinitely, a discovery that could change the way we recycle containers like those used ...

WRAP is offering to provide funding for a new recycling plant to be set up to recycle about 13,000 tonnes of HDPE plastic bottles every year. The organisation is now seeking companies willing to take ...

Hawaii researchers are giving old fishing nets and recycled plastic a second life by mixing them into asphalt roads. Early ...

Platinum Equity will buy Tangent Technologies, a maker of sustainable synthetic materials from recycled HDPE for outdoor use.

Waste Exchange Services (WES) looks set to be the first UK company to recycle food grade HDPE milk bottles back into milk bottles. The plastics recycling company expects to commission equipment at its ...

The company says its extruder and EcoFresh silo degassing for the recycled resins have been designated as suitable for food ...