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Nestlé Malaysia is accelerating its efforts to tackle plastic waste by expanding further the use of environmentally-friendly packaging. The company is the first in Malaysia to use high-quality rPET for its Ready-to-Drink (RTD) products in plastic bottles format. This move is claimed to be in line with the company’s pledge to
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Tomra calls for closing the loop on PET beverage containers, recognising that there is more to be done. Now political framework, bold decisions and smart investments in collecting, sorting and recycling should be used to improve circularity across all material streams and to overcome today’s supply chain bottlenecks, states the recycling
Read moreAxens, worldwide provider of technologies, products and services, and Toray Films Europe, a leading company in engineering plastics films, are announcing their collaboration to study a PET chemical recycling facility at Toray Films Europe production site in Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost (Ain, France). New units based on Axens’ Rewind PET technology will be coupled
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Scientists at German Leipzig University have discovered a highly efficient enzyme that is stated to degrade PET in record time. The enzyme PHL7, which the researchers found in a compost heap in Leipzig, could make biological PET recycling possible much faster than previously thought. The findings have now been published in
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Inline inspection also for colour deviation In recent years, the proportion of recycled material in preforms has gradually increased – initially for reasons of cost and image, and recently because it was required by law. Although this regulation makes sense from the point of view of resources conservation, the use of
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New extended producer responsibility (EPR) legislation is a benefit, one of Africa’s largest PET recyclers explains RTo reduce the amount of packaging waste sent to landfill and to accelerate the circular economy, South Africa has implemented EPR regulations. One of the biggest recyclers of PET bottles on the African continent, Extrupet,
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When producing PET bottles with significant recycled PET (rPET) content, there are several factors to consider – including the visible quality issues related to rPET as well as the challenges related to processing bottles with this material. Agr international offers a combined solution for these challenges with two products in its
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rPET preform production – flakes and granules in one hopper Sacmi and its partner Piovan present a new solution that enables an increase in the percentage of flakes in the mixture by up to 70%-75%, with consequent advantages in terms of cost reductions, ease of use and management. A solution that
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Circular Plastics Australia (PET) is a joint venture partnership between Pact Group, Cleanaway Waste Management Ltd, Asahi Beverages, and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) aiming to create a circular economy for PET beverage and food packaging. The newly installed Starlinger RecoStar PET 215 HC iV+ at the Albury-Wodonga facility turns post-consumer PET
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Under the name “DGrade Recycling Factory Launch: Supporting a Closed-loop for Plastic Bottles”, DGrade, UAB, has held an opening ceremony on March 23 to celebrate the establishment of its PET bottle and flake sorting plant that features Tomra’s plastic sorting systems. The new plant started operating on March 20 and targets
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Plastics separation of household plastics waste on particle level via magnetism – by Lucy van Keulen, Commercial Director, Umincorp Research produced for Zero Waste Europe by sustainability consultancy Eunomia shows that most PET plastic recovered from bottles in Europe does not make its Recycling has everyone’s attention. But what is the
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