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2025-12-16 3:40 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Asia Pacific

Ban

South Korea: Bottled water to go label-free from 2026

South Korea will prohibit manufacturers and retailers from attaching labels to bottled drinking water from 1 January 2026 to reduce plastic use by more than 2,200 tonnes a year.

2025-12-10 2:38 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Europe

Environmental legislation

Zero Waste Europe raises concerns about Environmental Omnibus

Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) expressed concern about the Environmental Omnibus proposal released by the European Commission. While the environmental network acknowledges that reducing administrative burden can be beneficial in a limited number of cases, this broad simplification ...

2025-12-03 4:14 min America, Chemical recycling

Chemical Recycling

Aduro Clean Technologies collaborates with ECOCE to advance recycling of flexible plastic packaging in Mexico

Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. and ECOCE, A.C. announced that they have entered into a multi-year framework collaboration agreement to jointly evaluate Hydrochemolytic™ Technology (HCT) as a potential chemical recycling solution for flexible and mixed plastic packaging in Mexico.

India

Expansion

KHS InnoPET TriBlock speeds up PET production at SLMG Beverages in India

Partnership

LNJ GreenPET and Sumitomo corporation sign MoU for strategic collaboration in r-PET sector

Joint Ventire

Ester Industries’ Joint Venture ELITe Acquires Strategic Land in Gujarat for India’s First Infinite Loop™ Manufacturing Facility

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Africa

Effort

PETCO: South Africa forges ahead with recycling, as global plastics treaty stalls

Investment in Recycling

Norfund invests in Mohinani Group to promote rPET in West Africa

Initiative

Ayuda en Acción, Indorama Ventures and IMG Group launch major recycling partnership to tackle waste crisis in Mali

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Middle East

PLA

Emirates Biotech launches its Embio product range – a new generation of PLA biopolymers made in the Emirates

Reverse Vending Machines

Majid Al Futtaim collaborates with Coca-Cola Middle East and Sparklo furthering its commitment to promoting circular communities

Expansion

thyssenkrupp Uhde signed a Letter of Intent together with KÖKSAN for the delivery of two polymer plants in Türkiye and Iraq

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China

Celebration

Two anniversaries at CHT China factories: 30 years of CHT Dongguan and 15 years of CHT Tianjin

Recycled polyester

Oerlikon Barmag: Demand for high-performance yarns on the rise

Localized sustainable innovation

Henkel launches RecycLab in China to pioneer a new packaging ecosystem

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Europe

Automated return machines

Citywide reusable cup system "CopoMais" launches in Lisbon

Cooperation

Corvaglia enters strategic partnership with Wisecap for the production of beverage closures in Europe

Cooperation

Wisecap and Corvaglia form strategic partnership for the production of beverage closures in Europe

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Asia Pacific

Partnership

CARBIOS and Wankai New Materials sign the definitive agreement establishing a strategic partnership to the large-scale deployment of CARBIOS’s PET biorecycling technology in Asia

Agreement

CARBIOS and Wankai New Materials are committed to the large-scale deployment of CARBIOS’ PET biorecycling technology in Asia

PEF

Avantium’s Releaf® receives CPBR approval for recycling in Japan

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America

Certification

SMX brings identity to American plastics as FDA-compliant molecular marking turns rPET into a certified commodity

Partnership

SMX strikes U.S. partnership to deploy FDA-compliant molecular marking in rPET plastics

Alternative rPET application

EcoRecord® launches sustainable rPET LP production for US market

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