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MAY 2-3, 2024-THU-FRI NEW DELHI

While speaking at the AMI Plastics World Expos North America in Cleveland in November, a panel of stakeholders from across the plastics value chain agreed increased collection is paramount to creating a circular economy in the U.S., despite challenges. Brand owners have made recycled-content pledges for packaging with 2025 and 2030 deadlines; recyclers have built facilities or […]

As the third meeting of the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee wrapped up in Kenya, delegates once again expressed frustration about the slow progress toward an internationally binding resolution on plastic pollution.  The third United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting (INC-3) in Nairobi, Kenya from Nov. 13-19 was initially intended to produce a second full draft of […]

The U.S. continued to export less scrap plastic to the rest of the world, according to an analysis of trade data covering the first nine months of 2023.  U.S. companies exported 699 million pounds of scrap plastics during the first three quarters of 2023, down 5% from the same period the year prior. Interestingly, the […]

A long-running comprehensive guide to public drop-off sites accepting plastic film has been taken down, leaving a gap in consumer-facing recycling information for bags and other flexible packaging. The Film Drop-Off Directory, which was housed at BagAndFilmRecycling.org, allowed consumers to enter their location and find the nearest drop-off recycling sites accepting film, primarily retail stores. The […]

Several presenters at the Plastics Committee meeting at the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) fall 2023 World Recycling Convention & Exhibition portrayed investments and new technologies designed to raise the global plastic recycling rate. At the late-October event in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Carlos Monreal, founder and chief executive of London-based Plastic Energy […]

People’s wants and needs constantly push up the volume of goods being moved across the world — save for the lull here and there. But did you know that more than a million trees are cut every year to transport these products easily and safely?These trees are used to make pallets — the flat, sturdy, […]

We look inside the UFlex initiative to tackle one of the biggest challenges in plastic waste recycling: multilayer aseptic packaging. These complex structures, consisting of aluminum, plastic, and paper, are notoriously difficult to recycle. UFlex has developed an enzyme-based delamination technology that efficiently breaks down this layer. Watch this video to see how this process […]

Plastic is a remarkable material in many ways. Cheap, durable, and versatile, it is responsible for a large percentage of the modern world we live in. As we all know, though, it’s not without its downsides. Its persistence in the environment is quite troubling, so any opportunity we can take to reduce its use is […]

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, are now presenting a new and efficient way to recycle metals from spent electric car batteries. The method allows recovery of 100 per cent of the aluminium and 98 per cent of the lithium in electric car batteries. At the same time, the loss of valuable raw materials […]