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Swiss mineral water brand Henniez announced that its entire plastic bottle range is now made of 75% rPET. Henniez has already been using 30% Swiss recycled PET since 2013 and has the clear ambition to move to 100% locally recycled PET. This is intended to close the PET circular loop, as
Read moreBiffa, a leading UK recycler and waste management provider, opened its new £27.5m1 state of the art PET plastic bottle recycling facility in Seaham, County Durham, UK. Biffa’s investment in the new facility, which is stated to be among the most modern and technically advanced of its kind in the world,
Read morePET to PET Recycling Österreich GmbH can look back on its most successful year to date: in 2019, more than 26,300 tonnes of PET material – equivalent to around 1.1 billion PET bottles – was used to produce valuable secondary raw material for new PET containers. This represents a further increase
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The recycling of beverage packaging poses a great challenge to the industry: the layers of the film mixture cannot be separated properly from each other. Recycling is therefore very difficult. At Interplastica, Leistritz Extrusionstechnik GmbH exhibits a foamed rPET solution. The plant technology, which was developed and tested together with partners,
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On the occasion of the company’s twentieth anniversary, the conditions of the previous year, increasing plastic bashing and the continuing individualisation of brand packaging have clouded the balance sheet of Petcycle GmbH. The operator of the petcycle pool system for beverage packaging reports an 11.8 percent decline in sales for 2019.
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Digitisation, product tracking, iOT, artificial intelligence: in production, this involves using machine data to optimise and automate processes. Modern software solutions such as GRAFiT 4.0 present the data of all connected machines in a clear, accessible form, and thereby make it available to the operator for use and analysis. The data
Read moreNine river clean-up programs across the world have been selected to receive a total of $11 million over the next three years as part of a partnership between The Coca-Cola Foundation and the Benioff Ocean Initiative at the University of California Santa Barbara’s Marine Science Institute. The partnership combines The Coca-Cola
Read moreCrain Communications Inc. is launching a new brand to address the emerging recycling and sustainability focus of the global plastics industry. Sustainable Plastics will provide news and information that impact consumer and industrial brands, manufacturers, governments, the plastics industry and more. “There is no bigger issue today in the plastics industry
Read moreAlpla Group, an international plastic packaging and recycling specialist, joins a new consortium for chemical recycling of PET. The consortium intends to speed up the commercialisation of enhanced recycling technology, BP Infinia, which turns opaque and difficult-to-recycle PET plastic waste into recycled feedstocks. Leading companies operating across the polyester packaging value
Read moreThe continued war against plastics and heightened awareness of plastic pollution has driven an unprecedented level of interest in rPET. As such, there has been a significant momentum behind collection and recycling commitments, analysed a new report by Wood Mackenzie. “Beyond regulatory commitments, such as the EU’s single-use plastics directive that
Read moreLegislation introduced in Michigan would make updates to the state’s 41-year-old beverage container deposit law (“bottle bill”) by placing a new 10¢ deposit on non-carbonated beverages, including water, sports and energy drinks, juices, ready-to-drink iced tea and coffee, wine and liquor, and mixed drinks. With the extensive growth of these product
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