Recycled Materials

Construction

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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Postconsumer

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.

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Postconsumer

Techmer 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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sustainability

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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Postindustrial

‘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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Postconsumer

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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Postconsumer

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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sustainability

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.

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Recycled 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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Plastics Size Reduction
Process Cooling