The essential briefing on materials, markets, regulation, packaging, recycling, and the people moving the plastics industry forward.
The rumors are true. Beginning Aug1, single stream recycling will become the law in Greenwich. So what does single-stream recycling mean? Typically, Greenwich residents currently pay a private hauler for twice-weekly garbage pickups, plus they receive a separate, monthly mixed paper collection for which the town picks up the tab. This takes place in tandem […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Family-owned German plastic processing machinery manufacturer Gneuss Kunststofftechnik GmbH announced that Mogilev Khimvolokno, a synthetic fiber manufacturer in Belarus, has installed Gneuss’ PET recycling line consisting of a MRS multi rotation extruder, an online viscometer and an RSFgenius melt filtration system. The fibers manufactured by Mogilev Khimyolokno range from bicomponent fibers with a low melting […]
Family-owned German plastic processing machinery manufacturer Gneuss Kunststofftechnik GmbH announced that Mogilev Khimvolokno, a synthetic fiber manufacturer in Belarus, has installed Gneuss’ PET recycling line consisting of a MRS multi rotation extruder, an online viscometer and an RSFgenius melt filtration system. The fibers manufactured by Mogilev Khimyolokno range from bicomponent fibers with a low melting […]
Greenstar Recycling (Houston, TX) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a joint venture (JV) with Vadxx Energy, LLC (Cleveland, OH) to convert recovered plastic into synthetic crude oil. Through this JV, Greenstar and Vadxx will work together to provide a domestic fuel, and benefit the environment by repurposing recovered plastic products. “Vadxx will […]