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The Anzpac Plastics Pact (Anzpac) has launched in the Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands region, uniting businesses, NGOs and governments behind a series of ambitious 2025 Targets to eliminate plastic waste. Anzpac joins the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Plastics Pact Network, a globally aligned response to plastic waste and pollution
Read moreThe new concept of the Renewable Materials Conference generated an outstanding response: 420 participants witnessed a firework of innovations of non-fossil material solutions and voted for the winners of the innovation award For the first time, the nova-Institute presented highlights and innovations from bio- and CO2-based chemicals and materials as well
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The EU Single Use Plastics Directive EU 2019/904 and its implementation PETplanet’s fourth PETinar on April 22, 2021 welcomed Dr Rana Pant, Directorate-General for Environment, from the European Commission. In addition to explanations on the general content of the directive, the principal question to arise was: What effects will it have
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Avient announced the launch of Colormatrix Amosorb 4020R, a non-nylon-containing oxygen scavenger additive specifically formulated to enable the use of up to 100 percent recycled PET (rPET) content. According to Avient Amosorb 4020R delivers full, consistent oxygen scavenging performance with 25 percent, 50 percent, and even 100 percent rPET content. It
Read morePlastipak, a global leader in the design, manufacture and recycling of plastic containers has announced a major investment in recycling at its manufacturing site in Toledo, Spain. The new recycling facility will convert PET flake into food-grade recycled PET (rPET) pellets suitable for direct use in new preforms, bottles and containers.
Read moreUS bankrupt PET recycler Carbonlite which operates recycling plants in Pennsylvania, California and Texas received a “stalking horse” bid from raw material manufacturer DAK Americas in the amount of US$96 million for its plant in Reading, Pennsylvania, according to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The PET
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Currently, the recycling of post-consumer PET bottle flake is well established and it has become a sought after secondary meantime. Increasingly, the focus is shifting toward using other sources of PET waste for recycling, such as post-industrial fibre waste and to other post-consumer sources of PET, such as thermoformed pots, tubs
Read moreNapcor, the trade association for the PET Packaging Industry in the United States, Canada and Mexico and Petcore Europe, representing the complete PET value chain in Europe, react on Formula 1’s plan to immediately start eliminating the use of plastic bottles by racetrack staff with the ultimate goal of doing away
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Coca-Cola is increasing the use of recycled material in PET single-use deposit bottles and is taking a further step in Germany in 2021: the PET bottles of the ViO, Fuze Tea and Powerade brands will be completely converted to rPET. For all other brands, all bottles up to a size of
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A sustainable society with climate-neutral processes requires significant adjustments in the value chains, which are only possible through innovations. Seven Fraunhofer Institutes are pooling their expertise in the lighthouse project “Waste4Future” to develop new solutions for this goal, from the raw material base to material flows and process engineering right to
Read morePetcore Europe launches communications campaign and roadmap to pave the way to full circularity– As part of a wider communications campaign to raise recognition of the role that PET (polyethylene terephthalate) can play in helping Europe achieve a fully circular and carbon neutral economy, Petcore Europe, through a focal group of
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