Exploring the: Scrap Reclaim Zone
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- Textile Recycler Saved by Carpets
- This is a tale of globalization with a happy ending.
Article Published: 6/1/2008
- First Commercial Recycling Process For Electronics Waste
- A 23-year-old Dutch plastic recycling firm, Plastic Herverwerking Brabant (PHB) BV has become the first supplier in the world of a complete commercial altered-density-media system tailored to separate the plastics in waste electrical and electronic ...
Article Published: 5/1/2008
- Recycling Is Hot: Lots of New Plants Trying Out New Technologies
- With virgin resin so expensive, there’s plenty of recycling action—from PET bottle-to-bottle plants to new projects aimed at agricultural film, carpets, and auto-shredder residue.
Article Published: 4/1/2008
- Cash From Trash Goes Back to the Workers
- Until last November, custom injection molder Hoffer Plastics Corp. in South Elgin, Ill., spent $1000 a month to have its plant waste dumped in a landfill.
Article Published: 3/1/2008
- Bottle-to-Bottle PET Recycling Uses Silicone Modifier
- A new low-cost approach restores the properties of recycled PET bottle flake to produce new food-grade preforms and pellets.
Article Published: 12/1/2007
- 'Green' and Growing
- AERT (Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies) Inc. in Springdale, Ark., maker of ChoiceDek wood/plastic composite deck boards, has always had a “green” strategy.
Article Published: 11/1/2007
- World's Biggest PET Recycling Plant
- What is billed as the world’s largest food-grade plastic bottle-to-bottle recycling plant is coming to Spartanburg, S.C.
Article Published: 9/24/2007
- Recycling E-Plastics New Material Stream Brings Its Own Set of Problems
- Brominated flame retardants restrict its use. Most now goes to China, but new recycling processes promise to ‘clean up’ e-waste.
Article Published: 8/1/2007
- Recyclers Now Targeting Higher-Value Engineered Resins
- Recycling news from the Society of Plastics Engineers’ Global Plastics Environmental Conference (GPEC) in Orlando, Fla., in March focused on PET, nylon, and waste plastics in electronics—in other words, mainly on higher value engineered ...
Article Published: 5/1/2007
- Clean and Upgrade Recycled PET
- Two recently developed technologies are said to make high-quality PET recycling more economical.
Article Published: 3/1/2007
