A new capital support competition has been launched by the Waste & Resources Action Programme to encourage closed-loop recycling of post-use HDPE plastic bottles in food contact applications, ...

KW Plastics Recycling is among the world’s largest recyclers of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP), with processing capacity of more than 1 billion pounds (500,000 tons) per year.

The "High-density Polyethylene Global Market Report by Feedstock, Application, Manufacturing Process, Countries and Company ...

Washington — The Recycled Materials Association (ReMA) and the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) have released updated recycled plastic specifications covering high density polyethylene bottles, ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

As a result, plastics must be carefully sorted into relatively pure streams, which pushes up recycling costs and reduces efficiency. Mechanical recycling — the dominant method worldwide — involves ...