Recycling

Compounding

Breaking the Downward Slide?

Processing market seems to have stabilized.

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Packaging

U.S. PET Recycling Rate At 31% For 2014

Recycled PET usage in domestic markets hits all time high.

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sustainability

First-Ever Global Report Aimed at Ridding Oceans of Plastic Waste

The Ocean Concervancy's allies include Dow Chemical, Coca-Cola, and ACC.

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Postconsumer

Recyclers Buhler Sortex And NRT Form Partnership

Sortex and National Recovery Technologies (NRT)聽are entering a strategic commercial agreement to offer plastics recyclers a complete solution for plastic bottle and flake sorting.

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Film Extrusion

Novolex Buys Wisconsin Film & Bag

With the addition of WF&B, Novolex is now a $2 billion revenue company with over 5,200 employees and 37 manufacturing locations in North America, including two recycling facilities.

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Postconsumer

Achieving Zero Waste: Two Processors Prove It’s Possible

Working with an Ohio-based recycler, two film and sheet processors go landfill-free.

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Blow Molding

Contraction Continues

Business index for plastics processors dips for fourth straight month.

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Postconsumer

APR To Host First Plastics Recycling Showcase

Recipients will be recognized during the APR Technical Forum held in conjunction with the Plastics Recycling Conference on February 1st, 2016 in New Orleans.

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Postindustrial

Taiwan's Growing Recycling Market

Strolling down the night markets in Asia, one of the things that stick out among the various smells, sights and sounds鈥攊s trash. Lots of trash.

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sustainability

Reduction Engineering Scheer Names Canadian Distributor

15-year plastics veteran will sell the company鈥檚 line of pelletizers and pulverizers.

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Plastics Size Reduction