Tetra Pak announces the launch of Tetra Top with Separable Top, an innovation that enables consumers to detach the plastic top from the carton sleeve, allowing them to be recycled separately.
The Independent Carton Group, an association of 18 independently owned and operated folding carton manufacturers, highlights some of its members’ most recent milestones and accomplishments.
Forty-eight percent of U.S. households now have access to carton recycling
January 22, 2014
Two thousand thirteen marked a year of significant expansion of carton recycling. Thanks to collaborative industry efforts and support from communities nationwide, 48% of U.S. households now have access to carton recycling.
The new RPA-100% certification program uses third-party audits to substantiate the manufacturing practices of participating companies to verify that paperboard marketed as 100 percent recycled contains only recovered fiber.
DiversiTech, Entropex, and Preserve Receive Awards
November 27, 2013
This year’s winners are being celebrated for developing innovative processes and products using post-industrial and/or post-consumer recycled plastics.
Fremont Elementary School students will tour Riverside plastic bottle recycling plant, create art with recycled plastic
November 11, 2013
Students from Fremont Elementary School in Riverside, CA, will celebrate America Recycles Day on Nov. 12 by touring CarbonLITE Recycling to see firsthand how plastic bottles are kept out of the waste stream.
NAPCOR and APR report highest domestic RPET production and end use to date
November 7, 2013
The total volume of postconsumer PET bottles collected was the highest reported to date at 1.718 billion pounds, as were both the total amount of RPET produced by U.S. reclaimers, 930 million pounds, and the amount used across major end-use domestic market segments at 1.3 billion pounds.
