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As the world’s nations enter another round of talks this week on creating a first-ever treaty to contain plastic pollution, officials are bracing for tough negotiations over whether to limit the amount of plastic being produced or just to focus on the management of waste. Working with a document called a “zero draft” that lists […]
The six projects, which between them were awarded £244,000 in grant funding by the SSPP Challenge, are SRS International, LUMA-iD, Crucible Medtech, Will Davis Design, Led by Sheephill Orchard, and Approach Studio. SRS International is set to develop a battery-operated device to densify and store household flexible plastic waste with the aim of reducing storage […]
PLASTICS Report: Plastics Machinery Shipments Grew in Third Quarter (PLASTICS) today announced that shipments of primary plastics machinery (injection molding and extrusion) in North America increased in the third quarter according to the statistics compiled and reported by PLASTICS’ Committee on Equipment Statistics (CES). The preliminary estimate of shipment value from reporting companies totaled $333.8 […]
While government has made progress in tackling plastic pollution, it has committed to address the problem of plastic pollution in consultation with the plastic industry and organised labour as the sector sustains approximately 60,000 jobs. Over the past two years, five registered extended producer schemes that support plastic waste collection and recycling have been registered […]
Austrian beverage producer Steinrieser and the newly founded Austrian-Croatian beverage producer KIS pica d.o.o. have joined forces to set up a PET recycling plant in the Donja Dubrava region of Croatia for bottle-to-bottle recycling. The Rekis PET recycling plant produces up to 18,000 tonnes of rPET pellets per year. The bottles are collected through the […]
Husky Technologies has been awarded the 2023 Innovation in Bioplastics Award by the Plastics Industry Association (PIA). Husky won the award for its hot runner system, UltraMelt, which was engineered for the efficient and sustainable injection molding of bioresins (Figure 1). Bioresins, made in whole or in part from renewable biological resources, present unique challenges in injection […]
MKS Plastics, a Louisiana-based premium industrial pail manufacturer, announced it is investing $14 million to double the size of its production facility in Tangipahoa Parish, about 53 miles east of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The 48,000 square-foot expansion will increase manufacturing output, allowing the company to better serve its customers in the petroleum and chemical industries. […]
A study focused on turning waste plastics into high-value graphene just unlocked a new way of producing hydrogen that could transform the nascent industry and, on a grander scale, positively alter projected decarbonization pathways. The breakthrough could be a win-win for the environment, recycling plastic waste – of which the world has approximately 6.3 billion tons – […]