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Plastic recyclers dispute company name
A dispute has broken out between two plastic recycling companies over the registration of a company name. Eurokey Recycling Ltd was formed in 1995 and since 2000 has been operating as a successful plastic recycler. During a routine credit check by one of its suppliers, a company was discovered registered as Eurokey Plastics Recycling. This company had been registered by Noman Iqbal, who is the ...
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New Tools Available to Support Healthcare Plastics Recycling
The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC), facilitated by Antea Group, is excited to announce the debut of its new website today! Key features include a refreshed design, more engaging user experience, enhanced content, and optimization for mobile devices. Visitors to the site can find product design guidelines that enhance end-of-life recyclability, templates to build the business case ...
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APR Announces First Annual Plastics Recycling Showcase
A recently announced program recognizing innovations in product design and technology promoting plastics recycling is accepting nominations through October 31st. The APR Plastics Recycling Showcase, developed by the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR), will focus on recently commercialized innovations developed by APR members that have a positive impact on the ability of a package ...
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Is Data the Key to Profitable Plastics Recycling?
Pamela Gordon blogs over at EBN Product designers are finding exponentially more applications for plastic materials – replacing easier-to-recycle metals (as well as glass and plant fiber). Yet few have learned how to design products as circular economy solutions, in which parts and materials are purposefully selected for efficient post-customer collection and leveraged for additional ...
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APR Plastics Recycling Showcase Webinar Tomorrow - Register Now!
The APR Plastics Recycling Showcase: Celebrating Innovations that Support the Growth of Plastics Recycling - Tuesday, April 19th at 1:00 pm EST As The Voice of Plastics Recycling®, APR consistently seeks to recognize and promote innovations that enhance the recyclability of a new or existing package or container. APR promotes the growth and development of plastics recycling by ...
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Podcast: Increasing Demand for Recycled Plastic with APR`s Ali Briggs-Ungerer
Today's episode features an excellent interview on the generation of demand for recycled plastic with APR's Director of Market Development, Ali Briggs-Ungerer. This discussion serves as a great primer on the world of plastic recycling and how the circular economy is driven, while also covering APR's Demand Champions campaign and how companies can participate and drive demand for recycled ...
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Commercial Representatives for Plastic Recycling Technology
Altero is expanding rapidly and we need commercial representatives that can help distribute our plastic recycling machinery ...
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WRAP launches new Recycle Now plastic recycling campaign
WRAP’s Recycle Now campaign is helping partners tackle the uncertainty that consumers feel when recycling plastic packaging with the launch of a recycling campaign called Recycle Plastic – Fantastic! The plastic recycling campaign which runs until the end of November 2015 aims to support a range of partners such as local authorities, brands and retailers to expand ...
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Big players join up to `recycle on the go` initiative
Tesco, Nestle Waters and GlaxoSmithKline have all pledged their support for a new global ‘recycle on the go’ forum to encourage the public to increase their recycling in public spaces. Set up by plastic recycling organisation Recoup, the forum is designed so that stakeholders can share knowledge on recycle on the go systems and develop these systems further. The forum does not just focus on ...
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How to Make Money in Plastics Recycling
The device on which you are reading this blog (or on which you printed it) likely contains plastic, in addition to some precious and non-precious metals. When that device reaches the end of its life, you have two types of options, as I learned from the Circular Economy Executive Education Course I'm taking. Read the rest over at EBN. Read more about Pamela's experiences at the Circular Economy ...
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Sparta Manufacturing at the Paper & Plastic Conference North America
Come meet Sparta’s Terri Ward and Rutger Zweers at booth #11 at the Paper & Plastics Recycling Conference in Chicago. Find out how Sparta can help you with “best fit” sorting and separation equipment, whether for a new MRF or MRF retrofit. The PPRC is the longest-running conference and trade show in the paper and plastics recycling industry. This is your opportunity to ...
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Recoup launches guide to achieving top recycled plastics prices
A guide to help plastics recyclers achieve top materials prices, while maximising transport efficiency has been launched by plastics recycling advisors Recoup. The publication Domestic Mixed Plastics Packaging – Recycling Guide focuses on the “big opportunities” and issues that have come with the growth in local authority collections. It sets out specifications to identify which plastics can ...
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Digital integration 4.0 in plastic recycling
Gamma Meccanica has always been committed to offer its customers a continuous improvement in the performance of the lines for the regeneration of plastic materials with particular attention to the development of new tools to control product quality in real time and to make equipment more interconnected. In the era of Industry 4.0 that promotes the digitization of production processes, GM lines ...
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Podcast: The 2021 Plastics Recycling Conference: A Can`t-Miss Virtual Event
Steve is joined today by Dan Leif and Tonya Oyala, Resource Recycling's Managing Editor and Sponsor/Exhibitor Manager, respectively. Dan, Tonya, and Steve discuss the upcoming Plastics Recycling Conference, now in its 16th year, which is the focal point for the increasingly complex and international plastics recycling industry. Tune in for more information about the virtual event and why you ...
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APR Announces 2017 Plastics Recycling Showcase
The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) recognized the innovators selected for The 2017 APR Plastics Recycling Showcase during the APR Technical Forum at the 2017 Plastics Recycling Conference in New Orleans this week. The Showcase, developed to highlight and promote industry leading innovations that have a positive impact on plastics collection and recycling, focuses on recently ...
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Updated APR Design® Guide for Plastics Recyclability Unveiled
Increasing supply and enhancing the quality of the plastics recycling stream are two primary goals of an updated resource guide unveiled this week by the leading technical authority on plastics recycling. The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), the international trade organization representing the plastics recycling industry, presented the new and improved APR Design® Guide for Plastics ...
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California Regulators to Address APR and Plastics Recycling Industry
Top Environmental Regulators from CalRecycle, California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, will discuss possible future changes in the regulatory climate impacting plastics recycling in California at The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) Spring Meeting in Sacramento, California next week. APR, the leading international trade association representing the plastics recycling ...
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The Future of Recycling: A Total Supply Chain Approach!
As part of America Recycles Day, we have a new guest blog post from Ronald L. Whaley on the future of recycling. Ron is the CEO of Geo-Tech Polymers and chairman of SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association (SPI) Recycling Committee. For the last twenty years nothing much has changed in how plastics are recycled from an overall approach. The majority of people and companies working in the ...
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Register Now for Next Week`s APR Plastics Recycling Web Seminar
Due to an ever growing demand for material by plastic reclaimers, APR continues to support the "Caps On" message. Historically, the perception has been that the best way to recycle a plastic bottle is with the cap off. Today, with growing markets for HDPE and PP, coupled with improved recycling technology, plastic recyclers support keeping the cap on for reclamation. Many communities have already ...
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APR Announces Second Annual Plastics Recycling Showcase
The APR Plastics Recycling Showcase, a program to highlight and promote industry leading innovations that have a positive impact on plastics collection and recycling, is now accepting nominations. Developed by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), the second annual program will focus on recently commercialized innovations developed by APR member companies. An additional category focused ...
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