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Turkish company Burkasan is using Tomra Recycling’s sorting machines in its new plastic recycling plant. The plant, equipped with Tomra’s Autosort and Autosort Flake, is capable of sorting 5 t/h of waste (including PET, HDPE, PP), enabling them to be brought back in the loop and the economy for further usage. The
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Plastics SA, the umbrella body representing the entire South African plastics industry, has released the plastics recycling figures for the year ending December 2019. The detailed survey of the country’s plastics recycling industry is conducted annually by the independent consultant Annabé Pretorius of Plastix 911. According to this report, 503,600 tons of plastics waste
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Environmental’s 54-hectare strategic energy and resource hub, Protos, to recycle some of the 4.9 million tonnes of plastic waste created in the UK. The facility will take PET – the main material used for food and drinks packaging such as plastic bottles and certain food packaging – and convert it into
Read moreBritvic announces its intent for all plastic bottles in GB to be made from 100% rPET by the end of 2022 – three years earlier than originally planned, and ahead of the previous target of 50%. This will cover the entire GB portfolio of Britvic-owned and PepsiCo brands. This is the
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The Reiling Kunststoff Recycling GmbH & Co. KG presented its new PET processing plant. During an appointment on site in Burgbernheim, Germany, company head Bernhard Reiling demonstrated the new location to bvse managing director Eric Rehbock. Reiling’s business unit “Recycling of Plastics” now has three locations, as Bernhard Reiling explained at
Read moreKeurig Dr Pepper announced that its Snapple and Core brands are transitioning to bottles made of 100% rPET, eliminating approximately 46.3 million pounds of virgin plastic used by KDP annually. Snapple is available now in 100% recycled plastic 16 oz. bottles in West Coast markets and will continue to roll out
Read morePET bottle and preform producer Resilux and recycling management company RCS are working together to achieve complete circularity for their PET products. By combining RCS’s waste collection and Resilux’s production capabilities, the two companies will be able to offer 100% traceability in the recycled PET produced. This growing partnership will help
Read moreCarbonLite Holdings LLC has begun production at its Reading, PA plant, the largest standalone bottle-to-bottle recycling facility in the world. The state-of-the-art operation, the company’s third plant, will eventually process 140 million pounds of post-consumer PET annually, enough to process 2.5 billion rPET bottles. The $80 million, 270,000 square-foot Reading plant,
Read morePlastics SA, the umbrella body representing the entire South African plastics industry, has released the plastics recycling figures for the year ending December 2019. The detailed survey of the country’s plastics recycling industry is conducted annually by the independent consultant Annabé Pretorius of Plastix 911. According to this report, 503,600 tons of plastics waste
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Desall, in collaboration with a leading company in the PET plastic packaging industry, invites the international community of creatives to propose innovative concepts for a new generation of recyclable packages. The contest is looking for new product concepts, for the realisation of the next generation of PET packages through stretch blow moulding, and invites
Read moreCarbonLite Holdings LLC, recycler of plastic beverage bottles, has developed a pelletised material using the caps and labels from the plastic bottles it recycles. It is targeting the injection moulding industry with its new offering, a blend of polypropylene and polyethylene dubbed CaPOLabel. The new product is produced from post-consumer beverage
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