New extended producer responsibility (EPR) legislation is a benefit, one of Africa’s largest PET recyclers explains RTo reduce the amount of packaging waste sent to landfill and to accelerate the circular economy, South Africa has implemented EPR regulations. One of the biggest recyclers of PET bottles on the African continent, Extrupet,
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When producing PET bottles with significant recycled PET (rPET) content, there are several factors to consider – including the visible quality issues related to rPET as well as the challenges related to processing bottles with this material. Agr international offers a combined solution for these challenges with two products in its
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rPET preform production – flakes and granules in one hopper Sacmi and its partner Piovan present a new solution that enables an increase in the percentage of flakes in the mixture by up to 70%-75%, with consequent advantages in terms of cost reductions, ease of use and management. A solution that
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Circular Plastics Australia (PET) is a joint venture partnership between Pact Group, Cleanaway Waste Management Ltd, Asahi Beverages, and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) aiming to create a circular economy for PET beverage and food packaging. The newly installed Starlinger RecoStar PET 215 HC iV+ at the Albury-Wodonga facility turns post-consumer PET
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Under the name “DGrade Recycling Factory Launch: Supporting a Closed-loop for Plastic Bottles”, DGrade, UAB, has held an opening ceremony on March 23 to celebrate the establishment of its PET bottle and flake sorting plant that features Tomra’s plastic sorting systems. The new plant started operating on March 20 and targets
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Plastics separation of household plastics waste on particle level via magnetism – by Lucy van Keulen, Commercial Director, Umincorp Research produced for Zero Waste Europe by sustainability consultancy Eunomia shows that most PET plastic recovered from bottles in Europe does not make its Recycling has everyone’s attention. But what is the
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A report shows how far PET, the most circular of all plastics, is from real circularity Research produced for Zero Waste Europe by sustainability consultancy Eunomia shows that most PET plastic recovered from bottles in Europe does not make its way back into new PET bottles. Significant improvements in PET design,
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Husky Technologies, a technology provider enabling the delivery of essential needs to the global community, announced the introduction of its HyPET HPP5e Recycled Melt to Preform (RMTP) system. With one system already running in the field and the second soon to be delivered, this development marks the integration of a preform
Read moreThai-based Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) with its facility Wellman France Recycling in Verdun, has been working on the PET trays recycling for six years and through an ongoing project with Valorplast and supported by Citeo. The project has the objective to develop and validate recycling for monolayer and multilayer
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The WorldStar Packaging Awards ceremony took place in Milan at the beginning of May. Out of 440 entries from 37 countries, the “rPET School Milk Cup Project” from Austria won the Sustainability Award in Gold – beating out packaging made of cardboard, glass, aluminium and paper. What many define as a
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SGR, the recycling unit of the SGT Group, obtains a favourable opinion from EFSA for its PET bottles recycling process. This food-grade recycled plastic, named CIRPET for “circular” and “rPET”, has been officially approved by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Thanks to its state-of-the-art recycling line combining technical and energy
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