by Plastics.com Staff | Feb 15, 2019 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, North America, Recycling
Amazon.com Inc. — Over the last year, Amazon.com Inc. has reduced the portion of shipments it packs in its cardboard boxes in favor of lightweight plastic mailers, which enable the retailing giant to squeeze more packages into delivery trucks and planes. But...
by Plastics.com Staff | Dec 3, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Polymer Science, Recycling, Scrap Plastics
Swindon, UK — In 2016, Recycling Technologies was part of the first cohort of the Barclays Unreasonable Impact accelerator, which supports entrepreneurs that are providing solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges. Two years on it has booked £65m of future...
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 12, 2018 | Business, Daily News, North America, Polymer Science, Recycling
Oregon — Agilyx is already processing scrap PS into a feedstock for prime plastics production. Now, the Oregon company says it can do the same thing for recovered PE and PP. Agilyx announced last week it is capable of processing the polyolefin recyclables into a...
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 12, 2018 | Asia/Pacifica, Business, Daily News, Environmental, North America, Recycling, Scrap Plastics
Thailand — A Thai policy restricting the import of scrap plastics has proved effective. U.S. scrap plastic exports to the country dropped by 94 percent after the ban took hold. U.S. exporters sent 1.5 million pounds of recovered plastic to Thailand in July, the most...
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 11, 2018 | Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Polymer Science, Recycling
UK — UK scientists have discovered a simple sunlight-driven process to transform plastic waste into hydrogen and other useful chemicals. ‘We want to use non-recyclable waste and make something useful out of it. Plastic waste contains a lot of energy and when you throw...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 28, 2018 | Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Recycling
A Spanish company is looking to use chicken feathers as a form of plastic to give a traditional waste by-product a new life. It is estimated that the European poultry industry generated about 3.1m tonnes of discarded feathers in 2014. But now Sarah Montes, research...
