STADLER, a leading supplier of sorting plants for the recycling industry, has seen a sharp increase in the demand for sorting and recycling facilities capable of closing this loop.
Chemical Recycling of Sachet Waste: A Failed Experiment
This whitepaper describes the Incidence of microplastics and their impact in marine and human environment.
Borealis, one of the world’s leading providers of advanced and circular polyolefin solutions and a European market leader in base chemicals and fertilizers, announces that it has acquired a minority stake in Limited, a UK-based growth-stage green tech business and inventor of the innovative EcoCore ® manufacturing technology platform for sustainable packaging.
The cost of recycled PET in Europe have shot up 103% to EUR 1,690 per ton since January 2021, and recently overtook that for the
US-based chemical company Eastman Chemical Co. will invest up to $1 billion to build the world’s biggest molecular recycling facility for waste plastics in France. The announcement was made jointly by French President Emmanuel Macron and Eastman Board Chair and CEO Mark Costa. The investment affirms France’s foresight in recognising the role of molecular recycling and supporting investments in innovation, while at the same time accelerating the transition to a more circular economy for plastics in Europe.
A newly released research study assessed the presence of plastics in final compost. Analysing samples of produced compost from five existing Spanish industrial composting plants.
For fish wholesalers Bröderna Hanssons, the sea is their livelihood. People have been enjoying fish and shellfish from them since the company was founded in 1880. To ensure that also future generations can enjoy delicacies from the sea, Bröderna Hanssons focus not only on the fish, but also on sustainability. One step in taking better care of the sea was to replace the polystyrene box with a fibre-based fish box made of corrugated board.
Sulzer is delivering customized state-of-the-art production technology to NatureWorks’ latest biopolymer manufacturing facility which will be located in Nakhon Sawan Biocomplex, Thailand.
Takeaway food is one of the fastest growing sectors of the global food industry. This growth is inextricably linked with an increased demand for packaging, the majority of which is plastic and single-use.
INEOS Olefins and Polymers Europe joins the award-winning NEXTLOOPP project to deliver new grades of Polypropylene (PP) incorporating recycled content that will be food-grade certified INEOS
SK Geo Centric (hereafter “SKGC”) and PureCycle Technologies (hereafter “PureCycle”), a U.S. advanced recycling company revolutionizing plastic waste, signed a non-binding Heads of Agreement (“HOA” or “term sheet”) to open Asia’s first recycled polypropylene (PP) plant in Ulsan, South Korea. The facility is expected to have an annual capacity of 60,000 tons and an expected completion end of 2024. The HOA progresses the business relationship between the two companies, which initiated in August 2021 with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU).
