plastics recycling

SABIC Gets 2023 ACC Sustainability Leadership Award

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  SABIC received a 2023 Sustainability Leadership Award for Exemplary Achievements in Circularity by the American Chemistry Council (ACC), recognizing the company’s pioneering collaborations to bring ocean bound plastic (OBP) back into a circular material. Next to Product Safety, Innovation…

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Dubai to host inaugural edition PRS ME&A

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  Following the runaway success of the PRSE in Amsterdam, serving the European recycling industry, the Plastic Recycling Show Middle East & Africa will now open in Dubai this year for the first time. PRS ME&A will take place…

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Plastics Recycling Show Europe opens on 10 May

Baspar/Iranpolymer The Plastics Recycling Show Europe exhibition and conference taking place at the RAI Amsterdam opens to visitors at 9.30 am on 10 May. Thousands of professionals involved in plastics recycling and the sustainable use of plastics are expected to…

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Fungi makes a meal of hard-to-recycle plastic

Baspar/Iranpolymer Polypropylene, a hard-to-recycle plastic, has successfully been biodegraded by two strains of fungi in a new experiment led by researchers at the University of Sydney. Polypropylene has long been recycling’s head scratching riddle. A common plastic used for a…

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Coca-Cola’s Smartwater gets help from partners to recycle its PET liners

Iranpolymer- According to Baspar, Coca Cola European Partners (CCEP; Atlana, GA) has collaborated with its waste management company Viridor (Somerset, UK), plastics recycling company PET UK and packaging producer Avery Dennison (Glendale, CA) on a project to reprocess PET liner waste…

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APR unveils Design Guide for making plastic packaging more recyclable

Increasing supply and enhancing the quality of the plastics recycling stream are two primary goals of an updated resource guide revealed last week by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR; Washington, DC). 

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