Netherlands plastic recycling market has collapsed
The Netherlands plastic recycling market has collapsed, according to participants, due to coronavirus and cheap virgin plastic.
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Recycling prices and market commentary: 5 June 2020
Those trading in the recycling market this week generally found themselves trying to decide which way values are headed.
Philadelphia cream cheese packaging to include chemically recycled plastic
Packaging manufacturer Berry Global Group has revealed that it will use chemically recycled plastic in Philadelphia cream cheese packaging produced by Mondelēz...
UK Government scraps tariffs on imports of recycled plastics
Tariffs on imports of recycled plastics will be scrapped from 1 January 2021 under a new regime that has been revealed by...
Coca-Cola to build PET bottle recycling plant in Indonesia
A PET bottle recycling plant is to be built bu Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia after it signed a heads of agreement with packaging...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 29 May 2020
Plastic and paper packaging grades saw falls in value this week due to a fall in the PRN/PERN value for the former...
Recycled plastic export report: March 2020
Please note this report just focuses on the waste polymers of ethylene commodity code (391510), as exports of other plastics are relatively...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 22 May 2020
As one recycling market commentator put it, "what goes up, must come down" and this was the case for certain paper grades...
University scientists develop technique for chemical recycling of PLA bioplastic
Scientists from the Universities of Birmingham and Bath have developed a technique for chemical recycling of polyactic acid (PLA) bioplastic.
Recycling prices and market commentary: 15 May 2020
While scrap metal traders and plastic bottle sellers will have seen price increases this week, everyone else will have seen falling or...