Recycled Materials
Materials: High-Impact, FR-Modified PET Compound
PolyVisions new DuraPET FR is also available in a version made from recycled PET.
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Windmoeller & Hoelscher and Keep Blackstone Valley Beautiful Team up For Litter Clean-up Day
In under two hours, the group of 10 collected more than 20 bags of garbage, including cans, bottles and wrappers.
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Dole’s Recycling Joint Venture In Costa Rica Celebrates 25 Years
This is a rare example of a recycling company that is completely vertically integrated within an industry that generates the waste.
Read MoreTechmer PM Showcases Bottle Made From 100% Ocean-Bound Plastics
Techmer PM helped Envision Plastics Industries create a 100% ocean-bound plastic bottle.
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Resins & Additives at NPE2018: Spotlight on Performance, Economy, Sustainability
NPE will host lots of news in engineered thermoplastic compounds, customized TPEs, polyolefins for packaging, bioplastics, recycled content compounds, purging agents, 3D printing materials, and a slew of innovative additives.
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‘First’ Scientific Tests Show HDPE Can be Reused 10 Times
How often HDPE can be processed, ground and reprocessed in injection molding processes without fundamentally changing its structure and characteristics?
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Recycling Needs Drive Innovation in Sleeve Labels
Materials suppliers and film processors have been hard at work creating new label offerings compatible with PET bottle recycling.
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Beccaria Srl Releases New Vertical Mixer Series
The outdoor mixing silos are equipped with technical and structural features that reportedly allow placement outdoor without need of any cover frame.
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IBM Tackles Chemical Recycling of Plastics From Post-Consumer PC (Think CDs) to a Thermoset
Jeannette Garcia, polymer chemist at IBM Research, details her research into chemical recycling of plastics for monomer recovery.
Read MoreRecycled Plastics Prices: PET Looks Stable, HDPE on a Yo-Yo Path
Most recyclers say 2017 ended on a flat note, after brief disruption by Hurricane Harvey, and some recycled resin prices may rise a bit in the second quarter.
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