Recycling News – Plastics Informart

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Benvic to drive forward PVC recycling at PRSE

Benvic Recycling will showcase its most recent PVC recycling innovations at PRSE. The subsidiary of France-based compounder Benvic Group has upgraded its processes with cutting-edge sorting, homogenisation, and regeneration equipment. These improvements allow the company to produce secondary raw materials that comply with legacy additive regulations while meeting stringent application-specific testing requirements. Initially focusing on […]

plasticsinfomart · Mar 25, 2025

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Recyclekaro expands e-waste recycling capacity by over threefold

Recyclekaro, which is into e-waste management and lithium-ion battery recycling, said it has increased its total e-waste recycling capacity to 24,000 tonnes annually at its facility in Palghar, near Mumbai. While e-waste recycling capacity has been increased from 7,500 tonnes to 24,000 tonnes per year, battery recycling capacity has grown from 4,200 tonnes to 10,000 […]

plasticsinfomart · Feb 27, 2025

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Chemical recycling gets €500 million boost with EU-approved French state aid

The European Commission has approved a €500 million French scheme to support plastics chemical recycling. The French state aid scheme will cover up to 40% of eligible costs for chemical recycling projects targeting plastic waste including trays, films, non-beverage bottles, and textile materials with a certain amount of polyester content. The French government will offer […]

plasticsinfomart · Feb 8, 2025

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AEPW releases new mechanical recycling ‘playbook’

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) says it has published its third “solution model” playbook titled “Capturing Value Through Basic Mechanical Recycling of Mixed Plastic Waste.” The Singapore-based group says its new publication “offers a comprehensive approach to reintroducing mixed plastic [scrap] streams back into the value chain, focusing on practical recycling models that […]

plasticsinfomart · Jan 13, 2025

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New alliance for PMMA recycling in Europe

NextChem, chemical company Röhm, acrylic and polycarbonate sheet and film maker Polyvantis, and PMMA recycler Pekutherm have formed an alliance to advance PMMA recycling in Europe. PMMA, also known as acrylic glass, has excellent optical and physical properties. It is used for glazing applications in, for example, caravans, facades, furniture, and vehicle tail lights, but […]

plasticsinfomart · Jan 8, 2025

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Chemical recycler Blue Cycle goes bankrupt in the Netherlands

Blue Cycle, a chemical recycler based in the Netherlands, announced its bankruptcy at the end of 2024. The company opened in 2019 and started operating a pilot plant in Heerenveen in early 2023. It had a capacity to recycled around 20,000 tonnes of plastic waste into pyrolysis oil per year. In the last days of […]

plasticsinfomart · Jan 3, 2025

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Re-Gen uses Polytag watermarks to track packaging among mixed waste recycling

Re-Gen is utilizing Polytag’s watermarking technology to accurately count individual items of packaging among the 250,000 tonnes of mixed household waste recycled at its Newry material recovery facility every year. Claimed to be the second largest material recovery facility in the UK, Re-Gen’s facility in Newry claims to handle 25% of all the waste generated […]

plasticsinfomart · Dec 18, 2024

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Suez, Loop, SK Geo Centric abandon plans for PET chemical recycling plant

French utility company Suez, Canada-based PET recycler Loop Industries, and SK Geo Centric, a subsidiary of South Korean group SK, have abandoned plans for their PET chemical recycling plant in Saint-Avold, France. The €450 million project was first announced in 2020, construction was scheduled to begin in 2025, and start-up in 2027. The project had […]

plasticsinfomart · Dec 2, 2024