A collaborative group of government and packaging industry leaders, led by the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), have released the results from the first-of-its-kind Pacific Northwest Secondary Sorting Demonstration Project (PNW Sort) today. The group set out with the goal of determining how…

In a world that seems to be drowning in plastic bottles, recycling this waste into useful materials would help to reduce its environmental impact. KAUST researchers have now invented a way to turn plastic bottles into porous membranes that could be used as molecular filters in the chemical industry.

In July 2019, the recycling company CALEX S.R.L. installed a Starlinger recycling line for post-consumer film in Satu Nou de Jos in the Romanian municipality Groși. For the owners, who also operate a recycling site in Austria, this is already the seventh line supplied by Starlinger recycling…

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is the first airline in the world to recycle PET bottles to make tools for repairing and maintaining its aircraft. Empty bottles are collected at the end of every flight and transformed into filament, the material used in 3D printers. This process means an empty water bottle…

MOnitoring Recyclates for Europe (MORE) — the single, unified online tool to monitor the uptake of recycled polymers into products — is now available for use by converters in the United Kingdom (UK). MORE is designed to monitor and register the industry’s efforts to reach the EU target of 10 million…

In July 2019, the recycling company CALEX S.R.L. installed a Starlinger recycling line for post-consumer film in Satu Nou de Jos in the Romanian municipality Groși. For the owners, who also operate a recycling site in Austria, this is already the seventh line supplied by Starlinger recycling…

With newly developed VACUNITE® bottle-to-bottle technology, Austrian recycling machine manufacturer EREMA redefines the benchmark for performance in bottle-to-bottle recycling: highly efficient decontamination, best colour values, top IV stability, low energy consumption during the entire process…

More and more food and beverage plants have committed themselves to increasing the content of recycled materials in their end-of-the-line packaging. It’s precisely here that Krones comes in with its recycling solutions. Ever since 2009, Krones has been deploying its MetaPure technology to close the…

Can plastic packages be sustainable? Yes, if they are resource-economically produced and kept in a closed cycle. Krones offers a solution for every step involved in the process. From material-minimised packaging design and energy-economical container production all the way through to the recycling…

Gneuss Filtration Technology will exhibit several different models of their patented Rotary Filtration Systems at the K trade fair this year (Hall 9, Booth A38).

Three years have passed since the last K, the world’s premier fair for the plastics and rubber industry, and everything has changed. Apart from the media attacks on plastic products, the industry also has other challenges to overcome, such as China’s import ban on plastic waste and constantly…

TOMRA Collection Solutions has installed the largest, automated bottle depot counting and sorting system in Canada. The record-breaking equipment has a footprint of nearly 300 m2 and can process over 35 million beverage containers per year.