Postconsumer

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Plastic Recycling Start-Up Looks to Change India’s Recycling

India has been referred to as the world’s trash can. Harsh for certain, but if you type in the words ‘India’ and ‘Trash,’ plenty of disturbing Google images of kids playing in trash will pop up.

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Commodity Resins

All-PE Structure Ensures Recyclability of Stand-Up Pouch

There are three things constant in the world: death, taxes and the鈥tand-up pouch. The stand-up pouch continues to grow in popularity showcasing that it does not yet have an expiration date, but it鈥檚 not all good news鈥攊ssues with recyclability have been a consistent challenge.

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SPI Launches Zero Net-Waste Program

New initiative to promote pursuit of zero-waste in plastics processing.

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sustainability

About 10% of Plastic is Recycled in GCC Countries

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the political and economic alliance of six Middle Eastern countries鈥擲audi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman鈥攈as a long way to go with plastic recycling.

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Postconsumer

MAS Receives FDA Approval for Food Packaging

The FDA approval confirms that its proposed secondary recycling process produces post-consumer recycling material fit for use in the manufacturing of packaging for the food industry.

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Packaging

Nordson to Supply 16 Pelletizing Systems to New PET Plant in China

Nordson鈥檚 CrystallCut system integrates underwater pelletizing, drying, water filtration and direct crystallizing at temperatures of up to 180 掳C and crystallinity up to 40%.

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plant tour

Compounder Finds Niche in Recycling

Combining compounding and recycling in one step is helping take Buckeye Polymers to the next level.

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Postconsumer

The Role Demographics Play in Plastic Packaging

Plastics continue to be the material of choice for the packaging market, according to a new report by SPI.

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sustainability

Top Recycling Stories of 2015

As PT’s Editorial Director Jim Callari wrote earlier this year: recycling is here to stay.

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Extrusion

November 2015—44.3

Processors plan to invest in capital equipment as smaller processors are doing better.

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Blending & Dosing