Sustainability

Through the website, members of the public too can buy recycled products from the corporation. An android app with the same name will also be up and running soon, officials said.

Plastic is known to be difficult to recycle and therefore very environmentally unfriendly. However, this mainly concerns the so-called hard plastics, or thermosets, such as billiard balls or the dashboard in your car.

Today, when you recycle a plastic container, it goes to a material recovery facility, where it must be identified and sorted. Facilities typically rely on imprecise older technology to try to figure out materials in a particular piece of waste.

Agilyx Corporation, leading in chemical recycling of post-use plastics back into plastics chemicals and low carbon fuels, announced a dynamic collaboration in artificial intelligence (AI) technology with the General Electric Company through its Licensing business unit

With rEPS, the Metzingen-based protective packaging specialist is breaking new ground when it comes to fully closing the recycling loop for EPS protective packaging.

INEOS Styrolution, leader in styrenics, and Agilyx,converter of post-consumer plastics to low-carbon fuels, chemicals, and plastics, announced they are advancing the development of a polystyrene (PS) chemical recycling facility in Channahon, Illinois.

Sulapac and Quadpack, an international provider of packaging solutions to the beauty industry, have entered into a preferred partnership agreement to provide microplastic-free packaging for cosmetic customers worldwide.

N. Rajendran, Vice-Chancellor, Alagappa University, has said demand for bioplastics, produced from renewable sources, has increased by manifold in the recent times after India and several other countries banned single use and other plastic items, which posed threat to the environment.