Avantium N.V., a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, has published Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data for its bottles made from PEF (polyethylene furanoate): a plant-based, fully recyclable plastic material with superior performance. nova-Institut GmbH recently completed ...

Tesco has now removed more than one and a half billion pieces of plastic from its UK ...

Project STOP Muncar provides waste collection to 90,000 people, created 110 new ...

According to a study made by ETH Zürich, the plastics industry was responsible in 2015 for 1.6 billion tons [1] of global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, with the largest portion (about 96 percent) resulting from the production of plastic. Analysts came to that alarming conclusion ...

Apollo (NYSE: APO) and Novolex Holdings LLC (“Novolex” or the “Company”), a leading global manufacturer of diverse packaging products for the foodservice, delivery and carryout, food processor and industrial markets, announced that funds managed by Apollo affiliates (the “Apollo ...

In 2021, Direct Pack, Inc. and its BOTTLEBOX® brand had another record year in using post-consumer recycled PET material: saving 46.9 million pounds of plastic from ending up in landfills and the ocean and making its way into their products. That is equivalent to using ...

Australia’s largest plastics manufacturer Qenos and the nation’s leading waste management company, Cleanaway have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to undertake a joint feasibility study for plastic-to-plastic advanced recycling in New South Wales and Victoria.

Evergreen, a plastics recycling and manufacturing company owned by The Sterling Group, is heading into 2022 as one of North America’s three largest producers of food grade recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) thanks to millions invested in strategic acquisitions and upgrades.

The ALPLA Group, the global packaging solutions and recycling specialist, increased ...

Braskem's investment supports the goal of a circular economy where hard-to-recycle plastic waste is captured as a valuable feedstock for new materials.