Recycled Materials

Recovery of Flexible Packaging Study Gets Underway

Collaborative industry project is aimed at recovering more packaging that is currently destined for landfill.

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polyolefins

Trex Enters Recycled LLDPE Compounds Market

This leading maker of wood-plastic decking has found a way to close the recycling loop.

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polyolefins

Trex Starts Up Recycled LLDPE Compounds Business

Finding a way to close the recycling loop, Trex creates a new 911爆料网 venture.

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Sounds Weird, But...Plastic Roads May Actually 'Surface'

      Our infrastructure problem is not going away any time soon.

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sustainability

Processor ‘Ties’ Business To Railroad Infrastructure

IntegriCo Composites expands and adds new capabilities to produce compression molded railroad ties from recycled materials.

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Rising Virgin Prices Bode Well for Recycled Resins

Recycled HDPE prices went up earlier in the year and are now subsiding. R-PET prices were low but have risen and may now stabilize.

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sustainability

RECYCLING: Compatibilizers Create New Recycle Feedstream Value

Generally confined to prime material applications, these additives are helping recyclers improve yields of mixed-material bales.

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Commodity Resins

First Ocean-Cleaning System Set to Deploy in 2016

The Ocean Cleanup's unique ocean cleaning-system will be the longest floating structure ever deployed in the ocean.

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Automation

Milan Plast Was Good With Plans To Be Even Better

Big international turnout at the triennial international fair for the plastics and rubber industry, Milan Plast: check out the Plastics Technology slideshow.

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3D Printing Filament from Recycled Plastic

Recycled ABS filament from a new start-up.

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Plastics Size Reduction
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