News from AIMPLAS, New Hope Energy and more - Plastics Recycling Update

2022-05-28 03:53:48 By : Mr. James Wen

Spanish plastics research institute AIMPLAS reported that the LIFE CIRC-ELV Project developed a process for recycling plastic components from vehicles. 

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste is offering a $3 million prize for flexible plastic packaging circular economy solutions. A single winner will be awarded the money in January 2023.

Pomegranate grower and juice brand POM Wonderful is transitioning to 100% RPET bottles and shifting more than 90% of its electricity needs to renewable energy.

PSC Group, which provides services to the petrochemical, refining and marine industries, opened a 200,000-square-foot chemical recycling facility in Baytown, Texas. 

Several plant-based-product brands from the U.S., Canada and U.K. partnered with rePurpose Global to finance the recovery of nature-bound plastic. 

TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy announced an agreement for New Hope Energy to build a new chemical recycling plant in Texas, making feedstock that TotalEnergies will purchase and convert into polymers for use in food-grade packaging. Meanwhile, S&B Engineers and Constructors signed a multi-year master service agreement to expand New Hope‘s existing pyrolysis unit in Tyler, Texas.

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Shareholders at Chevron Phillips’ parent company recently voted to approve a resolution on shifting toward more recycled plastic use. Amazon and ExxonMobil will be encountering similar resolutions this week.

Advanced Drainage Systems, now the largest plastics reclaimer in North America, increased its product sales by nearly 40% last year.

Indorama Ventures is moving into the commercial stage of a project in which post-consumer PET trays are recycled into flake used in food packaging.

A new plant in western Michigan will recycle recovered plastic from Goodwill into stormwater drainage infrastructure.

The U.S. EPA is working to build several grant programs from the ground up thanks to an influx of money from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and it is reaching out to stakeholders to make sure the programs will meet industry needs.

Shortly after opening its Northern California carpet recycling plant, Aquafil is working to close the facility and consolidate processing equipment elsewhere.

Recycled-plastic decking manufacturers are responding to strong markets for their products by expanding production capacity, including UFP buying reclaimer Cedar Poly and Fiberon breaking ground on a facility in Tennessee.

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