LATEST HEADLINES
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Bagging The Upcycle Life
The Town of Smithtown has taken another major step toward reducing plastic waste with the installation of a heavy-duty vertical baler at the Municipal Services Facility (MSF) in Kings Park.
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Veolia To Build UK's First Innovative Closed-Loop Recycling Facility As Part Of £70M Plastic Push And £1B Investment By 2030
Veolia, a leading resource management company in the UK, launches its biggest UK plastics recycling project with a £70M investment which will include the country’s first “tray to tray” closed loop PET1 recycling facility in Battlefield near Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
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Navigating The Challenges Of Using Recycled Plastics In Food Contact Materials
Food packaging is increasingly reliant on plastic. Its durability, versatility and cost-effectiveness make it an ideal solution for a range of food contact products, from water bottles to disposable cutlery.
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Plastics Recycling With Enzymes Takes A Leap Forward
A successful collaboration involving a trio of research institutions has yielded a road map toward an economically viable process for using enzymes to recycle plastics.
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THY Precision Expands Medical Injection Molding And Cleanroom Assembly In Taiwan
THY Precision, a leading medical injection molding company, is proud to announce the expansion of its medical injection molding and cleanroom assembly and packaging operations in Taiwan.
INDUSTRY NEWS
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Sustane Technologies Announces Offtake Agreement With Global Leader BASF To Advance Circular Plastics Economy6/26/2025
Sustane Technologies and Germany-headquartered BASF have signed a long-term offtake agreement that will see BASF purchase premium plastic feedstock from Sustane's Chester, Nova Scotia facility, including output from both its existing production line and an upcoming facility expansion comprising a new line, tripling capacity.
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Toyoda Gosei Launches Horizontal Recycling Technology For Plastic Automotive Parts6/17/2025
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. has developed a new technology to recycle high-quality plastic from end-of-life vehicles (ELV) in order to meet the growing demand for recycled plastic in the automotive industry against strengthened environmental regulations.
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Birch Biosciences Enters Into Global Patent License Agreement With NREL To Advance Enzymatic Plastic Recycling Process6/11/2025
Birch Biosciences, a startup focused on AI-powered enzymatic plastic recycling, today announced a global patent license agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to commercialize a novel enzymatic deconstruction processing technology that breaks down polyethylene terephthalate (PET)—a common plastic used in packaging and textiles—to recover valuable chemical building blocks.
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Alterra Technology Enables Major Milestone In Plastic Recycling At Viva Energy Geelong Refinery5/15/2025
Alterra, a global leader in advanced plastic recycling technologies, is proud to announce the successful deployment of its pyrolysis oil in Australia, marking a significant step toward a circular economy for plastics.
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Univation Technologies Announces World-Scale 800,000 Tonnes/Year Design Capacity For UNIPOL™ PE Process Technology5/12/2025
Univation Technologies, LLC announces the next-generation of the UNIPOL™ PE Process platform with its newest world-scale licensed capacity offering of an 800,000 tonnes per year design.
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Gunze Apparel Business Establishes Sustainable Supply Chain5/8/2025
Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan, President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) is pleased to announce that Gunze has introduced a "recycled hanger" made of 100% *PCR material from plastic waste at the logistics bases of its Group company, Gunze Distribution Co., Ltd. This initiative is part of Gunze's efforts to promote "company-wide waste recycling" and realize a resource-recycling society.