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Origin Materials, a technology company with a mission to enable the world’s transition to sustainable materials, revealed engineering and design innovations in its manufacturing of tethered PET caps, the first tethered PET caps ever made. “The EU Single-Use Plastic Directive, which came into effect last month, mandates that caps stay connected
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Keykeg and Dufor, the supplier of high-quality polyester for Keykeg and Unikeg PET kegs, have successfully created a circular production loop. Bert Hanssen, Sustainability and R&D Advisor at Keykeg, explains that their collaboration focuses on circular plastic packaging for beer and wine: “About five years ago, we started looking for partners
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The Plastics Recycling Show Middle East & Africa (PRS ME&A) is set to take place at the Dubai World Trade Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from September 10-12, 2024. This three-day exhibition and conference is the only event in the region dedicated exclusively to plastics recycling. PRS ME&A aims to
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The Plastics Recycling World Expo Europe is taking place at the Brussels Expo in Belgium on September 11-12, 2024. Returning for the fourth time, this free-to-attend expo and conference brings together industry leaders and experts from around the globe for two days of learning, inspiration and networking opportunities. The conference for
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“For the Olympic and Paralympic Games, recycled plastic bottles are being replaced by a more eco-friendly mode of consumption, as recycling is not a sustainable solution to plastic pollution,” states the city of Paris on the Olympics events. For the duration of the Games and festivities hosted by the City of
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Despite their ability to increase recycling rates and reduce litter, relatively few countries in the world currently have container deposit systems that include plastic bottles. As of mid-2024, approximately 30 countries around the globe had such schemes including Ecuador, most of Australia, much of Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Croatia and all
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A new report, researched and drafted by Eunomia Research and Consulting, commissioned by Amcor and Tomra, explores how marker and object recognition sorting technology can contribute to circularity and traceability in plastic packaging recycling in Europe. The report, entitled Advanced Sorting for Circularity, finds that for many plastic packaging formats, further
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For the last six months, the GreenDot Group and Shell Chemicals Europe B.V., a subsidiary of Shell, have been exploring ways to collaborate to try to deliver additional business outcomes across circular chemicals and polymers for Europe. These discussions have now resulted in GreenDot supplying pyrolysis oil to Shell Chemicals Europe
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The organisers of the world’s largest trade fair for plastics recycling, PRSE (Plastics Recycling Show Europe) and PRS ME&A (Plastics Recycling Show Middle East & Africa), are staging the first Plastics Recycling Show India (PRSI). PRSI will take place at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai, India, on 4-6 December 2024.
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Chemical company Indorama Ventures collaborated with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and the Department of Education under the BMA to host the ‘PET Youth Camp for Sustainable Plastic Management’ program. The camp brought together 60 teachers and students from 20 BMA schools to engage in activities that foster young leadership in
Read moreWhile recycling systems and bottle deposits have become increasingly widespread in the U.S., actual rates of recycling are “abysmal,” according to a team of MIT researchers who studied the rates for recycling of PET. However, their findings suggest some ways to change this. The present rate of recycling for PET bottles
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