recycling

Recycling Investment

Eastman Chemical to Build a $250 Million Advanced Recycling Plant

Depolymerization technology will take polyethylene plastic waste and convert it to a 'polyester renewal technology.'

July 13, 2021

Advanced recycling, or chemical recycling, is receiving a lot of attention from investors across the world as more companies explore commercialization. In the 2019 Closed Loop Ventures report, “Accelerating Circular Supply Chains for Plastics,” the findings revealed that 40 startups or companies are currently running commercial-scale recycling facilities in the U.S. or Canada, or have plans to do so in the next two years.

Editors Forum

The Missing Link

Consumers want a circular economy that the industry is trying to provide, but there’s something missing from the chain.

Derrick Teal

July 11, 2021

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I wish I were a smarter person. That’s not a self-deprecating statement, either, because I wish I were smart enough to specifically do one thing: make being a recycler profitable.

From Packs to Pitches

June 25, 2021

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Lay’s Replay program aims to turn used chip packs into sustainable soccer pitches.

Amcor Supports the U.S. Plastics Pact Roadmap to 2025

June 22, 2021

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Engaging nearly 100 organizations, the Roadmap outlines actions and responsibilities to achieve reusable, recyclable or compostable plastic packaging by 2025.

ORBIT Gum Innovates to Help Reduce Plastic Waste

May 24, 2021

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The ORBIT Mega Pack is the first ever Mars Wrigley product to partner with How2Recycle.

Advanced Recycling and Collaboration Produces ‘Soft Wrapper’ Packaging for Nestlé

A collaborative effort in Australia has produced a new type of recycled wrapper for Nestlé’s KitKat that relies on an advanced recycling technology called Cat-HTR.

Grant Gerke

May 12, 2021

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Collaboration has always been an essential ingredient for consumer packaged goods (CPGs) companies and value-chain partners when introducing a new product or packaging format.

Recycling Innovation

Recycling Programs are Thinking Twice

Communities can innovate their existing recycling efforts and give landfill plastics another chance

Sam Paul

March 29, 2021

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Recycling systems and processing infrastructure in the U.S. are quickly falling behind ever-growing sustainability trends — something the “2020 Recycling Economic Information (REI) Report,” released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), says is just one of many challenges facing recycling.

Editor’s Forum

The Future of Accountability

The circumstances involving one child could have a ripple effect across the world

Derrick Teal

March 12, 2021

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I wouldn’t be surprised if you haven’t heard the name Ella Kissi-Debrah before. She was a 9-year-old living in southeast London near one of its busiest roads and suffered from severe asthma, which caused her numerous trips to the hospital between 2010 and 2013. Finally, in February 2013, her asthma brought on a cardiac arrest and she died.