Pilot testing has begun at the National Test Centre Circular Plastics Facility in Heerenveen, the Netherlands.

Acquisition of two Spanish recycling companies will allow Alpla to increase volume of postconsumer recycled material in packaging. Alpla will process more postconsumer material for packaging with ...

Plastics recycler Envision Plastics is increasing production capacity of the company's EcoPrime brand of food-grade high density polyethylene by 50 percent through a multimillion-dollar expansion.

A new capital support competition has been launched by the Waste & Resources Action Programme to encourage closed-loop recycling of post-use HDPE plastic bottles in food contact applications, ...

The team converted would-be trash into recyclable treasure. Plastics are incredible materials with properties invaluable to the functioning of our modern world. They are strong, flexible, versatile, ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP) have developed a new method for recycling high-density polyethylene (HDPE). Using a novel ...

For the fifteenth consecutive year, the total pounds of plastic bottles recycled grew in the U.S., reaching a record 1.9 billion lb, but demand for recycled plastic still outpaces consumer ...

Austrian packaging giant and recycler Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG opened a 20 million euro ($22.9 million) high density polyethylene recycling plant in central Mexico Nov. 10 and promptly ...