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Samsung Gets ISRI’s 2016 Design for Recycling Award

First time a television has been built with a greenhouse gas emission as a building block.

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sustainability

Novolex to Acquire Heritage Bag Co.

Heritage Bag Co. is Novolex鈥檚 fifth acquisition since Wind Point Partners acquired Novolex (formerly Hilex Poly) in 2012.

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Postconsumer

Are You Getting Maximum Value From Your Plastic Scrap?

If not, you’re throwing away money. The solution comes from knowing the difference between a scrap materials reprocessor and a recycler, and how to evaluate what a reprocessor can do for you.

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Packaging

Ahead of the Curve in Recycling

A pioneer in recycling milk bottles built a thriving 911爆料网 in plastic lumber, but blow molding with PCR has proved a longer, harder road to success.

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Compounding

February’s Index—49.6

Processing market at highest level since last April.

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Postconsumer

Ways to Grow PET Packaging Recycling

Global commodities markets are placing intense price pressure on all players in the PET supply chain, as reclaimers and PRF operators suffer tight margins due to low resin pricing.

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Postconsumer

Water-Cooler Talk: New Application for Plastic Bags

Who鈥檇 have thought that after all these years someone would come up with a new application for the already omnipresent plastic bag?

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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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sustainability

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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Integrated Process Cooling Boosts Output, Cuts Costs

Closed-loop system helps an extrusion processor maintain quality of reusable straws and other products.

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Plastics Size Reduction
Blending & Dosing
Process Cooling