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CarbonLite 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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Alpla switched its PET Recycling Team plants in Wöllersdorf, Austria, and Radomsko, Poland, to a mix of electricity from renewable sources in order to produce carbon-neutral rPET (= recycled polyethylene terephthalate). ‘This step has already had a big impact on the carbon footprint of our food-grade regranulate – according to the
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With immediate effect, ips Pelletizing Solutions GmbH & Co. KG is supplying a newly developed, compact rotary drum for the inline crystallisation of PET pellets to supplement its underwater pelletising system ips-UWG S and as a “stand-alone” device. The ips-DR/K with its compact, horizontal design and dedicated process guidance is claimed
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Tomra Collection Solutions has officially launched five recycling centers in conjunction with the state of Western Australia’s new deposit return system for recycling empty beverage containers, Containers For Change. The global reverse vending leader’s recycling centers – located at Osborne Park, Kelmscott, Myaree, Belmont and Joondalup – will each feature 11-12
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Alpla Group, a global specialist for packaging solutions and recycling, is acquiring a facility in Western India for the production of preforms for PET bottles from the packaging company Amcor. Alpla Group has taken over a plant for rigid plastics in India from the global packaging specialist Amcor with effect from
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Alpla Group, a global specialist for packaging solutions and recycling, continues to pursue a strategy of expanding its recycling activities worldwide. The family-owned enterprise from Austria is now building a plant in Mexico for recycling HDPE. It is planned to produce 15,000 tonnes of post-consumer recycled material each year. Alpla has
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Amut has been awarded a new tender project by a joint venture between two world leader groups, specialising in raw materials production and rigid packaging solutions, engaged in the circular economy, in the Far East and worldwide. The Italian Group will contribute as a turn-key supplier to the most important project
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Loop Industries, a leading company in sustainable plastics technology, and Suez, a world leader in environmental services, announce plans to build the first Infinite Loop recycling facility in Europe. Based on enhanced recycling, the partnership will combine the resource management expertise of Suez and Loop’s unique technology for the production of
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OneCircle, the producer of KeyKeg and UniKeg, made some major steps towards the circular economy with the production of the first batch of OnePET to be used in their kegs and increasing the recycled material content to approximately 45%. OneCircle used the situation during Covid-19 to put its circularity program at
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With the “3 Circles” bottle, all of the individual elements and the entire lifecycle were designed to be sustainable. It is made 100% out of recycled PET and it can be completely recycled again after use. Instead of having a label which is normally unable to be recycled, the bottle was
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After Marius Mersinger from the Faculty of Architecture at the German Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Frankfurt UAS) won second prize in the AppliedIdea competition and many other prizes with his project “zeltHAUS”, he is now continuing on the road to success with a new team: Together with Fabian Hegner and
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