1:10 min Strategies & Market Analysis, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Monitoring system

PolyREC® launches RecoTrace™, the multipolymer data collection system to record European recycled plastic data

PolyREC® now a recognized data collector for the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA) RecoTrace™ is the first comprehensive data system to monitor plastic recycling and recycled plastics use Call on plastics recyclers and converters to register recycled plastics data in RecoTrace™
3:44 min Strategies & Market Analysis, Sustainability & Circular Economy, Enzymatic recycling
Partnership in Bio Recycling

Carbios and Indorama Ventures to build in France its first-of-a-kind manufacturing plant for fully bio-recycled PET

The plan for the reference plant is to be operational in 2025 /1/ in France (Longlaville) with a processing capacity of 50.000 tons of PET /2/ waste per year and creating 150 direct and indirect new jobs. Indorama Ventures, the world’s largest producer of recycled PET for beverage ...
0:56 min Strategies & Market Analysis
Principles

APR launches Global Design Guidance Platform

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) launched the APR Global Design Catalog, a comprehensive resource to access the most current plastic packaging recyclability guidelines for countries and regions around the world.
2:59 min Strategies & Market Analysis, Biobased Material
Data

Life Cycle Assessment study demonstrates the potential of Avantium’s FDCA and PEF technology to curb global warming

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 ...
1:32 min Strategies & Market Analysis, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Packaging strategy

Tesco removes one and a half billion pieces of plastic

Tesco has now removed more than one and a half billion pieces of plastic from its UK ...
3:10 min Strategies & Market Analysis
Programme

Borealis: Project STOP Muncar reaches economic autonomy and hands over the programme to the city government

Project STOP Muncar provides waste collection to 90,000 people, created 110 new ...
1:59 min Strategies & Market Analysis
Circular Economy

Werner & Mertz: Current study by ETH Zürich shows plastic industry's impact on environment

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 ...
2:10 min Strategies & Market Analysis
Acquisition

Apollo Funds to acquire majority stake in Novolex

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 ...
0:50 min Strategies & Market Analysis
Review

Direct Pack: 2021 - Another record year of recycled PET

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 ...
1:50 min Strategies & Market Analysis
Research

Qenos and Cleanaway join forces in Australian Plastic-to-Plastic Advanced Recycling feasibility study

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.