Henkel and Plastic Bank aim to expand its engagement in the coming years and to reach a yearly collection capacity of 5,000 tons of plastic waste in 2023.
Mars, the global food conglomerate behind pet food brands such as Whiskas, Cesar and Pedigree, has just announced a new partnership with Terracycle to enable pet food packaging to be recycled.
The PepsiCo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of PepsiCo, and The Recycling Partnership have launched All In On Recycling, the largest ever industry-wide residential recycling challenge to make recycling easier for families.
Green tech company rPlanet Earth will make about 75 million pounds per year of two product types from 100 percent recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET): forms for beverage containers and food packaging.
After disposable coffee cups and plastic bottles, pouches could be the next target in the waste reduction landscape, due to the difficulty of recycling these packs, says GlobalData, a data and analytics company. There is confusion over the use of the Green Dot symbol on pouch packs. The symbol is a mark to show that the supplier has made a financial contribution toward recycling them, yet consumers believe it means they can be recycled in household recycling systems.
The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), the leading international trade organization representing the plastics recycling industry, announce new participants in a campaign designed to expand market demand for recycled resins and improve plastic recycling in North America.
