Total, a France-based petrochemical company, has introduced a range of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) circular compounds with high levels of recycled content, which it will make available to its ...

This video demonstrates the process of creating a sheet of recycled plastic. The team melted 2.2kg of HDPE using a panini press and kept the melted plastic warm in a toaster oven. After gathering ...

A new capital support competition has been launched by the Waste & Resources Action Programme to encourage closed-loop recycling of post-use HDPE plastic bottles in food contact applications, ...

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 ...

Austrian packaging and recycling company ALPLA has secured government funding in the Netherlands and set up a new recycling business there, trialling a patented solvent-based technology to produce ...