sustainability
Additives: Multi-Purpose Modifiers Pump Up Properties of Virgin & Recycled Plastics
A new slate of compatibilizers, chain extenders, and process aids improve properties and processability of resin alloys and mixed post-consumer recycle.
Read MoreU.S. Plastic Bottle Recycling Reaches 3 Billion Pounds
Single-stream collection of household recyclables continues to grow, resulting in higher participation rates.
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Injection Molder: How Plastics and Sustainability Go Together
Plastics might be many environmentalist’s Public Enemy No. 1, but in Illinois, Hoffer Plastics was just recognized for showing how sustainable the material, and those who process it, can be.
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New Plastics Recovery Facility To Open in Baltimore
One of the biggest barriers to increasing recycling rates is a lack of infrastructure.
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Why & When Should You Re-Crystallize PET Scrap?
Whether you’re blow molding PET bottles or extruding APET sheet, you’ll produce amorphous scrap in the process. How you handle it will impact your production costs. Re-crystallizing it will help.
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Solvay Recycling Airbag Textiles Into Polyamide 6.6 Grades
Project site in Gorzów, Poland.
Read MoreU.S. PET Recycling Rate At 31% For 2014
Recycled PET usage in domestic markets hits all time high.
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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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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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