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...
RECOUP says UK plastic recycling infrastructure needs to double by 2022
RECOUP's Household Plastic Packaging Sorting and Infrastructure Report has found that UK plastic recycling infrastructure needs to double by 2022 in order...
US Environmental Protection Agency warns of shortage of recycled paper and cardboard
Americans are being encouraged to recycle by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) because of a shortage of paper and cardboard as...
ALPLA doubling capacity of rPET plant in Poland
The capacity of an rPET plant in Poland will rise from 15,000 to 30,000 tonnes, its owner ALPLA has announced.
Plastic recycling infrastructure held back by long-term council contracts Defra-backed study suggests
An academic study has said that long-term local authority contracts means plastic recycling infrastructure and technology ends up being 'locked in'.
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