Ineos Styrolution, Recycling Technologies and Trinseo Reach Milestone in Plans to Build Commercial PS Recycling Plants
Pilot plant to be built next year in the U.K. using Recycling Technologies’ depolymerization solution.
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Supercritical Steam Process Can Convert All Plastic Waste to Virgin Materials
Mura Technology’s HydroPRS process creates raw ingredients for infinitely recyclable new virgin-grade products from all types of plastic.
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American Styrenics and Agilyx to Collaborate on Advanced Recycling Facility
AmSty will use Agilyx’s advanced pyrolysis technology to convert post-use PS to styrene monomer.
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Tupperware to Expand its Sustainable Product Portfolio with Tritan Renew
Eastman’s Tritan Renew gains further commercial traction.
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Eastman’s First Sustainability-Based Agreement with a Major Prestige Beauty House Involves its Chemically Recycled Renew PET Copolymer Portfolio
Eastman’s agreement with The Estée Lauder Companies expected to help drive greater use of recycled or recyclable plastics in luxury cosmetics packaging.
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PFE Further Expands into the European Plastics Recycling Industry
PFE is not only the first U.S. testing facility to achieve accreditation to perform RecyClass testing, but is also the world’s only lab accredited to perform testing in all four product categories
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SABIC and Eyewear Lens Maker Polyray Collaborate to Launch Renewable PC into Eyewear Applications
SABIC’s certified renewable Lexan PC can potentially result in reductions in carbon footprint of up to 61% and fossil depletion reduction of up to 35%.
Fresh Milk in Clear PET with 20% PCR
Use of clear PET bottles for fresh milk is a growing trend, and Amcor offers up to 100% PCR content, as well as a UV barrier additive that doesn’t affect clarity.
Chemically Recycled EPS Adopted by Leading European Home Appliance Manufacturer
BSH Hausgeräte to use chemically recycled EPS bead from BASF for ‘luxury’ line of dishwashers
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Agilyx and ExxonMobil’s Joint Venture to Supply Plastics Recycling Industry
The new Cyclix entity will aim to provide needed supply chain transformation to enable advanced recycling on a large scale.