News from Brightmark, PreZero US and more - Plastics Recycling Update

2022-09-23 19:16:25 By : Ms. Dolly Guo

Brightmark partnered with the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) to start a recycling program for the sanctuary’s old buoys. 

Milliken & Company brought its clarifier plant in Blacksburg, S.C. on-line, increasing production of its Millad NX 8000 additive. 

Clemens Stockreiter has been appointed CEO of PreZero US, as former CEO Hernan de la Vega took an international management position within the Schwarz Group. 

The Cincinnati Bengals became the third professional football team to use PureCycle’s PureZero program, which will divert more than 150,000 pieces of plastic from the landfill during home games. 

PURE LOOP‘s shredder-extruder combination machine is producing recycled pellets that customers can use to make synthetic nonwoven with up to 10% recycled content. 

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California’s extended producer responsibility program for carpet achieved a sharp increase in the recycling rate last year, jumping 7 percentage points from the prior year.

The largest curbside garbage and recycling hauler in North America will acquire and scale up Avangard Innovative’s U.S. plastics recycling business.

The commodities market downturn continues this month, with plummeting prices for bales of PET, HDPE and PP.

Ten companies with technologies to recycle post-consumer PET, HDPE and PP into food and drink packaging have received the federal government’s thumbs-up this year.

Flexible packaging has sustainability potential, but only if it’s properly recycled at the end of its life. The president and CEO of the Flexible Packaging Association says an extended producer responsibility program for the material is the way to reduce food waste, shipping emissions and plastic in landfills.

Novolex is investing $10 million at its North Vernon, Ind. facility to increase its recycling capacity for plastic bags and other PE film.

Current debate over a California bill requiring PET thermoforms to contain RPET derived from thermoforms boils down to one question: What will materials recovery facilities do?

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