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Tomra and Plastretur sign joint venture to create Norway’s first dedicated sorting plant to enable circularity of plastic packaging

The global sustainable technology company Tomra has signed a majority ownership agreement with Plastretur, the Norwegian producer responsibility organization responsible for recycling plastic packaging. The companies will pair up to create a plastic packaging sorting plant located in Norway. The 50M EUR (~600MNOK) joint venture will be split 65 percent Tomra

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Henkel Egypt and Plastic Bank stop over 500 million plastic bottles from reaching the Seas.

Henkel Egypt and Plastic Bank held a joint press conference to celebrate their significant partnership milestone, preventing over 10 million kilograms of plastic from reaching Egypt’s seas –  the equivalent of more than 500 million plastic bottles. As a key strategic partner of Plastic Bank, Henkel Egypt works to achieve integrated

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Indorama Ventures and Carbios reaffirm partnership to build first-of-a-kind PET biorecycling plant in France

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) a global sustainable chemical producer, and Carbios (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB), a biotech company developing and industrialising biological solutions to reinvent the life cycle of plastic and textiles, announced the signing of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a Joint Venture for the

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Sell-out Plastics Recycling Show Europe to expand again for 2024 – 2023 visitor numbers increase by 80 per cent

The Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) 2023 exhibition and conference held recently in Amsterdam, the Netherlands attracted a record number of visitors and exhibitors from across Europe and more than 80 different countries internationally. With over 320 exhibiting companies and over 75 conference speakers in two theatres, the show saw a

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LanzaTech & Plastipak partner to produce world’s first PET resin made from waste carbon

LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Nasdaq: LNZA), a carbon capture and transformation (“CCT”) company that converts waste carbon into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging, and other products that people use in their daily lives, and Plastipak Packaging, Inc. (“Plastipak”), well-known in the design, manufacture, and recycling of plastic containers, announce they

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PET Baltija is developing one of the largest PET recycling factories in Europe with €35 million investment

PET Baltija, one of the largest PET recyclers in Northern Europe and part of Eco Baltia, the largest waste management and recycling group in the Baltics, announced the investment of over €10 million as part of the development of a new PET recycling plant in Olaine, Latvia. This joint project is

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Post-consumer PET bottles turn into PBT resins for electrical industry

Sabic, a global leader in the chemical industry, launched LNP Elcrin WF0051iQ compound featuring thin-wall, non-brominated/non-chlorinated flame retardance (FR). It is the newest addition to the company’s family of sustainable iQ resins and it is well suited for electrical applications. The new grade is intended to increase Sabic’s diversion of post-consumer

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Public-private partnership with Kansas City, Missouri intends to improve recycling collection

On May 1st, the City of Kansas City, Missouri began delivery of 162,000 recycling carts that sets the wheels in motion to transition the city to cart-based recycling collection which provides increased capacity for more recyclable materials, rolling carts for easy maneuvering, and a streamlined collections process. The project, which advances

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