Walk on almost any beach or look on the side of most roads and you’ll see the bottles, bags, and cast-off scraps of a polymeric alphabet soup – HDPE, PET, ABS, PP, PS. Municipal recycling programs ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the food-contact compliance of postconsumer recycled high-density polyethylene (PCR HDPE) produced with Austria-based Erema’s Intarema TVEplus ...
Considering that PET (#1) and HDPE (#2) comprise 97% of all plastic bottles on the market in North America and are the easiest materials to recycle, the recycling industry often questions why their ...
Newark, New Jersey-based G&F Recycling was having an issue sorting No. 3-7 plastics at its material recovery facility (MRF). G&F Recycling’s Operations Manager Tiffanie Nyzio says she realized the ...