Recycling

Heinz revamps Tomato Ketchup bottles with fully recyclable caps

Iranpolymer/Baspar  This should ensure the whole bottle and the cap can now be recycled in regular kerbside collection. The move means a potential 300 million plastic caps annually can be recycled, instead of ending up into landfill. Heinz said it…

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Covestro reaches new chemical recycling milestone

Iranpolymer/Baspar  Raw materials producer Covestro is advancing the implementation of its chemical recycling technology to pilot scale, the company has announced in a 16 August statement. Its specific chemolysis process, adapted to polycarbonate, has been shown to be robust at…

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New partnership for recycling PE film

Iranpolymer/Baspar Fastenal, a U.S.-based industry supplier, and wood-alternative decking company Trex have announced a partnership that will see Trex repurposing Fastenal’s discarded polyethylene (PE) stretch film. PE film, widely used in logistics, stabilises products on pallets to make them safe…

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Ravago, Republic form post-consumer plastics JV

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  In a major recycling deal, Republic Services Inc. and Ravago Group have formed Blue Polymers LLC, a joint venture that will build and operate plants to generate 100 percent post-consumer resins. The joint venture will make high density…

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Reflection: Green buildings are a work in progress

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  If there’s one sector that has needed to pull up its socks when it came to sustainability, it was the building construction industry. The World Green Building Council has estimated that the energy required to construct and operate…

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Alpla launches new Alplarecycling brand

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  Plastic packaging specialist Alpla is no newcomer to the recycling world. Its first investment in recycling date from 2005 when it became a joint-venture partner in a PET recycling plant in Toluca Mexico. Today, the company operates 13…

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DePoly gains funding to expand plastics recycling operations

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  According to deep tech company DePoly, over 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced every year, but less than 10% are recycled, with the majority entering incineration centers or landfills around the world. To combat this, the company…

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Recycling Program Announced for Nylon 3D Printed Parts

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  Sculpteo, a 3D printing service provider and part of BASF chemical company, announced a new take-back program, branded “RE-cycleo”, that will recycle 3D printed parts returned by its customers. Clients will be able to send nylon PA11 and PA12…

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Upcycling PP with peroxide masterbatches

Baspar/Iranpolymer  According to the Federal Environment Agency, around 3.33 million tonnes of plastic waste were recycled or reused as raw materials in Germany in 2019. More than 38 per cent of this was polypropylene (PP). Yet recycling this PP comes with…

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Green polypropylene production is coming to America

Baspar/Iranpolymer  Process technology and energy expert Lummus Technology and Citroniq Chemicals, a producer of carbon-negative materials, have signed a letter of intent (LOI) for the development of Citroniq’s green polypropylene projects in North America based on the Verdene PP technology…

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Chemists tackle the tough challenge of recycling mixed plastics

Baspar/Iranpolymer Plastics are everywhere in our daily lives, but not all plastics are created equal far from it. Take, for instance, polyethylene terephthalate, a plastic used to make soda bottles and clothing fibers. Then there’s high-density polyethylene, from which shampoo bottles,…

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New catalyst helps turn plastic waste into useful organosilane compounds

Baspar/Iranpolymer  Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have found that gold nanoparticles supported on a zirconium oxide surface help turn waste materials like biomass and polyester into organosilane compounds, valuable chemicals used in a wide range of applications. The new protocol leverages…

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PLA recycling is focus of new partnership

Baspar/Iranpolymer  Three companies – TotalEnergies Corbion, Posco International and Esol- have announced a new partnership established specifically to advance PLA recycling in South Korea. Over the coming years, the companies will work to develop the PLA recycling infrastructure and technology…

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PureCycle: First European chemical recycling plant announced

Baspar / Iranpolymer The recycling specialist PureCycle Technologies (USA) wants to build its first European plant for the recycling of polypropylene in the “NextGen District” of the port of Antwerp in the coming year 2024. The listed US company stated…

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Recycling of protective masks started successfully

IranPolymer/ Baspar   As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, sales of disposable face masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) are booming worldwide. So far, however, there are only a few recycling projects for these new everyday products. The British company…

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Iranian researchers: Conversion of Polymeric bottles to thermal insulations

Iranpolymer-According to Baspar report, by increasing the production capacity of polymeric bottles and different challenges of recycling, Iranian researchers were guided to find a method for recycling them and finally they suggested production of special foam from this material that will…

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BASF Certified biobased compostable particle foam added to “ecovio” range

BASF  has extended its range of high performance foam products through the introduction of compostable particle foam “ecovio” EA. The material is predominantly biobased and, like all grades under the “ecovio” brand, it supports the biological cycle through its certified…

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APR responds to plastic can recycling claims

After claims by plastic can manufacturers that their products are recyclable, the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR; Washington, DC), the international trade organization representing the plastics recycling industry, responded this week that a PET can with a metal lid contaminates…

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Sport Infinity project promises zero waste and infinite recyclability

Last year in June, the European Commission kicked off a new project that aimed at boosting the sustainability of sports products – and especially that of soccer gear.

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Dow finds ‘Holy Grail’ with pouch recycling breakthrough

Dow Chemical has ‘cracked the code’ to recycling certain multi-layer pouches that would otherwise be thrown away. The US company’s new RecycleReady technology works for one particular type of pouch design, but is expected to be the basis for a long…

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