Environment Recycling News GreenBlue Offers Tips on Designing Recyclability Into Packaging July 8, 2011 by plasticsinfomart The smallest packaging choices can sometimes have detrimental effects on recycling, and those choices are often made by people most removed from the end of life of packaging. To give designers a better idea of how mixed materials, labels, dyes and other packaging additions affect composting and recycling, nonprofit GreenBlue has developed a set of […] Read more »
Environment Recycling News J&B Recycling takes charge of Teesside bring sites July 8, 2011 by plasticsinfomart J&B Recycling has begun running 76 recycling bring bank sites across five Teesside local authorities, under a deal which could be worth up to £7.5 million to the Hartlepool-based waste company over the next five years. The contract was procured by the Tees Valley Partnership, involving Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees borough […] Read more »
Environment Recycling News J&B Recycling takes charge of Teesside bring sites July 8, 2011 by plasticsinfomart J&B Recycling has begun running 76 recycling bring bank sites across five Teesside local authorities, under a deal which could be worth up to £7.5 million to the Hartlepool-based waste company over the next five years. The contract was procured by the Tees Valley Partnership, involving Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees borough […] Read more »
Category Menu Machinery News Buying Plastic Injection Molds and Plastic Injection Molded Parts from China. What Are You Really Saving? July 8, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Recently, more and more American and European companies source molds and productions from Asia. What these companies are trying to calculate is the savings value for tooling and part cost after adjusting the price with the additional freight and program management. Chinese plastic injection tooling and injection molding manufacturing has significant cost advantages. Countries such […] Read more »
End Markets Processes Wacker starts new silicone polymer production July 7, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Wacker Chemie AG, a Germany-based chemical group, has started operating several silicone polymer production lines at its Burghausen site, the company announced on July 5. The lines are for high-purity specialty silicones, encapsulation and coating compounds, as well as UV-activated silicones for the medical, LED and electronics industries. The new facility meets Wacker’s novel Clean […] Read more »
Category Menu Product News Consumer-friendly PET container gains popularity as reliable replacement for glass bottle July 7, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Sutter Home Family Vineyards, based in California, the US, began using Amcor Rigid Plastics’ barrier PET bottles as a glass replacement in 2005 and has switched its entire 187ml production to the plastic containers. The bottles preserve the look of the original glass container and run on the winery’s existing glass filling line. The aluminum […] Read more »
End Markets Processes Plastic2Oil process turns plastic waste into fuel July 6, 2011 by plasticsinfomart While a lot of people may be doing their part for the environment by sending their discarded plastic items off for recycling, the fact is that much of the plastic currently in use is non-recyclable. In a not particularly eco-friendly process, some of this plastic is burned to generate electricity, while much of it simply […] Read more »
Environment Recycling News Round and Round and Round again: Plastics that can Recycle Infinitely July 6, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Most plastics are recyclable, but only a fraction are recycled. And most of those are only recycled one or two times. Worse than that, they tend to be downcycled, meaning they lose much of their embedded energy, engineering, structure and value, and can’t be remade into better products. A computer housing becomes a park bench […] Read more »