Greenstar WES, based in the U.K., reports that it hit new production records in December, producing nearly 700 metric tons of food-grade recycled HDPE plastic flake, taking its 2009 production total ...

A barrier solution that "alleviates concerns about multilayered packaging" has now been officially recognized by both the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) in the U.S. and Plastics Recyclers ...

The company says it is encouraging municipalities and customers nationwide to add paper and plastic cups to accepted ...

Chemists at Argonne National Laboratory in DuPage County have worked out a new way to recycle certain plastics infinitely, a discovery that could change the way we recycle containers like those used ...

TORONTO (Oct. 10, 9:30 a.m. ET) — For the second straight year, post-consumer high density polyethylene recycling has remained stagnant. The North American recycling rate for HDPE remained at 29.9 ...

The Polyolefin Responsibility Organisation (Polyco) is investing in infrastructure and end-use development that is essential to growing the collection, recycling and beneficiation of polyolefin ...

Polyco says these findings show that the demand for white or transparent post-consumer HDPE products for recycling in South Africa is high. Being at the centre of promoting this economic potential, ...

Envision Plastics has begun full scale production of its recycled HDPE plastic resin for use in food and drink packaging. The US company has owned the technology to produce EcoPrime for many years but ...