plastic recycling News
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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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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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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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Mobile non-ferrous metals separator
Mobile metals separatorFor non-ferrous metals separation from plastic: a simple system, but might catalyze plastic recycling market.This year Cogelme - manufacturer of metals separators from North of Italy - combined Eddy Current Separator with a Worm Screw to a small, comfortable system, capable to separate non-ferrous metals from grinded plastic and download directly into big bags. Main ...
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US Recycled Plastics Industry
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: US Recycled Plastics Industry http://www.reportlinker.com/p01050292/US-Recycled-Plastics-Industry.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Plastic US demand to rise 5.9% annually through 2016 US demand for post-consumer recycled plastics is forecast to rise 5.9 percent per year to ...
By ReportLinker
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Plastic recycling firm receive £450,000 top-up
The Welsh Assembly Government has awarded £450,000 to recycling firm Plastic Sorting, topping up the £850,000 it received in 2007 to develop a plastic bottle sorting facility. The new sum will buy hot-wash equipment enabling plastic bottles to be flaked and washed to remove any residues and adhesive labels. Once the plastic has been through this process it will be almost indistinguishable from ...
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Complete 2-stage plastic recycling system available
A complete 2 stage shredding and granulating system that was built in 2006 and was only run for 3000 hours has come up for sale and we are ready to disassemble and deliver anywhere in the US. The system includes: - Infeed conveyor for shredder- Single shaft shredder, WEIMA Model WLK-15- Shredder discharge and granulator infeed conveyor- Metal detection and separation equipment- Granulator, MPG ...
By eFACTOR3 LLC
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Where To Locate A Good Plastic Recycling Machine Price
For decades one of the worst waste materials to recycle have already been the various types of plastics. There are certainly several troubles with plastics related to the numerous types that we now have and the truth that most of them can’t be melted down into new raw materials. Then, while they look similar, you can’t just mix one type with another type, they need to be separated ...
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Bunting at Interplas
Bunting takes its magnetics showcase to Interplas Metal Contamination Solutions at Interplas Efficient and proven methods of removing metal during plastics manufacture or recycling will showcased on Bunting’s ‘Protect, Prevent & Purify’ stand (H11) at the Interplas plastics exhibition (28th to 30th September, NEC, Birmingham, UK). Bunting is one of the world’s ...
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REY invests £55k in plastic recycling firm
Not-for-profit business Resource Efficiency Yorkshire has invested £55,000 in a Sheffield-based plastics recycler Reclaim, to help transform it into the “UK’s largest social enterprise in the plastics recycling sector”. REY’s investment is part of a package of support that will help Yorkshire and Humber to cut landfill tax, reduce greenhouse emissions and boost employment opportunities. Reclaim ...
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Drastic drop in exports outside EU & performance downgrade of recycling in EU to be expected from new trade rules for plastic waste
FEAD’s president, Jean-Marc Boursier reacted to the adoption of the proposal: “This international decision, of which we understand the motives but question the effectiveness regarding marine pollution, ignores that recycled wastes are traded on a global commodity market. Such a major drop in the exports of EU collected and sorted plastic waste will affect, in the short and in the ...
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Expo News & NPE Guest Passes from eFACTOR3!
The 2012 Exhibition and Conference season is here, and eFACTOR3 will be participating at a number of key industry exhibitions and conferences including the International Plastics Showcase Expo NPE in Orlando (FREE Guest Pass information below). Make sure to stop by our booth at these events to say hello and see the latest innovations and systems for Plastics Recycling, Waste-to-Energy, and ...
By eFACTOR3 LLC
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Lindner at IFAT 2022: Efficient Recovery of Recyclable Materials In Line With the Ciruclar Economy
Energy-efficient and profitable solutions for the challenges of tomorrow's waste management - at the IFAT 2022, hall B6, booth 251/350, and the VDMA outdoor area, the recycling pioneer Lindner will present innovative shredders and system solutions that maximise efficiency and output gains and enable waste disposal and recycling companies to successfully enter the field of plastics recycling. ...
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Special measures lobby to avoid landfilling recyclables
As part of urgent efforts to prevent the landfilling of recyclable plastics, Recoup is lobbying the Environment Agency to agree special measures on storage exemptions. Temporary measures are needed because material flow in the plastic recycling market has been disrupted by a “unique” decrease in values and demand. This has left some companies with excess material they cannot store or sell. ...
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APR Releases the Final Report of Sleeve Label Working Group
The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers, the leading trade organization representing the plastics recycling industry in North America, released the Final Report of the Sleeve Label Working Group detailing recommendations the packaging industry can use to mitigate the impact of sleeve labels on the recycling of PET bottles. Formed in June of 2013, the APR Working Group represented all ...
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Innov-X Systems, Inc. and BT-Wolfgang Binder work together to develop automated plastics sorting system
Innov-X Systems, Inc. and BT-Wolfgang Binder GmbH recently announced they are increasing their level of cooperation by further developing their REDWAVE QXR technology; this time for the plastics recycling markets. Earlier this year, Innov-X and BT-Wolfgang Binder entered into an OEM agreement to develop and market a new high volume glass sorting system -- the REDWAVE QXR-G. This system combines ...
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Plastics recycling: overcoming barriers and creating new opportunities
The production of plastics is increasing, but our use of the material is not sustainable. A recent study provides an overview of challenges and opportunities for recycling plastics and suggests that it could be possible to stop the majority of plastic waste reaching landfill over the next few decades. Around 4 per cent of petroleum is used directly in the manufacture of plastics each year. A ...
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Stay up lid means two hands are better than one
Leafield Business Development Manager Gary Mills said, “The idea was developed because of feedback from Loughborough University’s catering team. Together we developed the idea for a magnetised lid which would stay open making it easier to dispose of food cleanly and safely.” “Loughborough went on to order 600 of the bins with a ‘stay up’ lid because the ...
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Newly-developed Recycling Technology Simultaneously Sorts and Collects Three Types of Plastic
Panasonic Corporation recently developed a recycling technology that simultaneously sorts and collects three types of plastic - PP, PS, and ABS - from shredded dust produced at home electronics appliances recycling plants at three times the speed of conventional systems. This technology will help accelerate the use of recycled plastic. Panasonic Corporation recently developed a recycling ...
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Sorting plastics: a new device for the recycling industry
There is a clear need to increase the amount of plastic that is recycled to conserve and recover resources and energy and to relieve pressure on landfill sites. However, recycling plastic waste is problematic as there are many types of plastics: each type has different physical and chemical properties. A recent study has assessed the effectiveness of a new separating technology which sorts ...
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