sustainability

Recycling

Neste and Ravago Create Joint Venture to Focus on Chemical Recycling

Neste and Ravago are aiming for a first industrial chemical recycling site in North Sea Port in Vlissingen with an annual processing capacity of about 55,000 tons of mixed plastic waste.

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sustainability

Fakuma: BritAS Introduced New Melt Filter for Contaminated PET

The technology is suitable for post-consumer plastic waste, focused on PET as well as PET-similar materials.

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sustainability

Stanley Black & Decker to Use Eastman's Tritan Renew for Power Tools

With 50% certified recycled content in the enclosures, the Black+Decker reviva line will launch in early 2022.  

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sustainability

Thermoplastic Compounds with Bio-Filler Content

Avient expands portfolio of sustainable thermoplastic compounds

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sustainability

First Headphones to Market Made of Sustainable Materials

thinksound’s new over-ear headphones made with Eastman’s Tr膿va Engineering Bioplastic

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sustainability

BP and Lanxess in Strategic Partnership for Sustainable Raw Materials for Production of Nylon 6

BP will provide sustainably produced cyclohexane to Lanxess’s production site in Antwerp, Belgium.  

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sustainability

ExxonMobil to Build its First Large-Scale Plastic Waste Advanced Recycling Facility

To be located at its Baytown, Texas site, the new facility is slated for startup by end of 2022.

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sustainability

Carbios Opens Demo Plant for Its Enzymatic Recycling Technology

The plant will allow the company’s enzymatic recycling process to function, for the first time, at an industrial scale.  

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Recycling

Nexus Reports 177% Year over Year Production Growth at Commercial Scale

To date, Nexus has diverted close to 3.8 million pounds of broad-based, landfill-bound plastics.

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best practices

Looking to Handle More rPET? Don't Overlook Your Conveying System

There is a lot of important process equipment in PET recycling plants, and pneumatic and mechanical transfer systems connect them all. Downtime due to poor transfer system design, incorrectly applied components, or the lack of maintenance should not be a fact of life. Demand more.

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Blending & Dosing