Plastic Recycling International Plastic Recycling Groups Announce Global Definition of Plastics Recyclability July 13, 2018 / July 13, 2018 by Plastics Infomart The groups’ believe a global definition of recyclability is an integral step to harmonize the worldwide plastics recycling industry. In an effort to provide a consistent metric to guide the efforts of sustainability for plastics in the Circular Economy, two international recycling organizations have developed a global definition governing the use of the term “recyclable” […] Read more » plastic recycling
Plastic Recycling RECOUP CUTS THE CONFUSION ON PLASTICS RECYCLING July 6, 2018 by Plastics Infomart Recycling charity RECOUP has linked up with Norfolk Waste Partnership to prove recycling is in fashion through a programme showing how clothing can be made from recycled plastic bottles. With support from retailer Marks and Spencer and packaging manufacturer RPC Group, RECOUP and Norfolk Waste Partnership ran a Fashion Design Challenge throughout April 2018 as […] Read more » plastic recycling
Plastic Recycling MAJOR RETAILERS WORK WITH VIRIDOR ON BLACK PLASTIC RECYCLING SOLUTION June 29, 2018 by Plastics Infomart Waste management company Viridor is working with major retailers Marks and Spencer, Tesco and Sainsbury’s, along with food packaging manufacturer Faerch Plast, on a project to put recycled black plastic into new food packaging. From July onwards, 120 tonnes of black plastic — eight million items — will be recycled each month, with the volume […] Read more » plastic recycling
Plastic Recycling The Recycling Game Is Rigged Against You June 28, 2018 by Plastics Infomart Even if you put everything into the right blue bins, a lot of plastics will end up in landfills and the ocean. Consumers can’t solve this problem. Americans were not set up for success in recycling plastics. Even before China stopped accepting plastic refuse from abroad, 91 percent of potentially recyclable plastic in the U.S. […] Read more » plastic recycling
Plastic Recycling All single-use plastics should be banned by 2023 Senate inquiry recommends June 27, 2018 by Plastics Infomart A Senate inquiry into Australia’s recycling crisis has recommended that all single-use plastics — which could potentially include takeaway containers, chip packets and coffee cups with plastic linings — be banned by 2023. The wide-ranging report also recommends the establishment of a national container deposit scheme as a response to an unfolding crisis in Australian […] Read more » plastic recycling
Plastic Recycling Ian Jamie | Examining plastic recycling June 26, 2018 / June 26, 2018 by Plastics Infomart Staeger Packaging’s Ian Jamie goes on a fact-finding mission to find out what happens when plastics are recycled while also offering what strategy the UK should take. Anyone who saw the BBC’s Blue Planet II could not help but be very alarmed and sad about the amount of plastic waste that exists in our seas […] Read more » plastic recycling
Plastic Recycling Study: Plastic will pile up in wake of China recycling ban June 22, 2018 by Plastics Infomart China’s decision to stop accepting plastic waste from other countries is causing plastic to pile up around the globe, and wealthy countries must find a way to slow the accumulation of one of the most ubiquitous materials on the planet, a group of scientists said. The scientists sought to quantify the impact of the Chinese […] Read more » plastic recycling
Plastic Recycling The world will finally have to confront its massive plastic problem now that China won’t handle it June 21, 2018 by Plastics Infomart Since the 1950s, when the world was first introduced to the flexible, durable wonder of plastic, 8.3 billion metric tons of it has been produced. Plastic doesn’t biodegrade, so technically, all of that tonnage is still sitting someplace on the planet. And a lot of it is in China. That’s because when hundreds of countries […] Read more » plastic recycling
