A busy year full of great new projects lies ahead for Lafuma, brand leader in the outdoor market, which “has made the mountain its favourite playground for over 80 years”. Mountains, outdoor and love for nature are the core ...
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The solid waste supervisor at the Asotin County Regional Landfill says recycling plastics is costing the county about $8,000 a year and is not worth the effort. Stephen L. Becker, who oversees the program, has asked the Asotin County ...
Tags: plastic packaging, recycling plastic, milk jugs, water bottles
Filatura di Saluzzo, Italy, a manufacturer of polyester yarns for apparel fabrics, now offers its Newlife™ polyester yarns — derived from 100-percent post-consumer recycled plastic bottles — for corporate workwear ...
US-based HDI Plastics has signed an agreement with the Eastland Economic Development to construct a $4m plastics recycling facility in 2013 in Eastland, Texas. Eastland Economic Development executive director Jerry Conner said the company ...
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Filatura di Saluzzo S.r.l. — an Italy-based manufacturer of polyester yarns for apparel fabrics — has introduced Newlife for corporate workwear applications. Newlife is an integrated, patented system for recycling polyester ...
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EuCertPlast, a certification scheme for implementing post-consumer plastics recycling that would also promote eco-friendly products for consumers, has released a new standard that uses the current CEN standard 14343 as its base. The ...
A UK-based recyclers group BPF (British Plastics Federation) that includes Jayplas, Eco Plastics and CK Polymers has called for splitting the recycling target for plastics, as it has made the UK heavily dependent on export markets for its ...
Tags: Responsibility System, plastic waste, plastic recycling
Plastics converters, recyclers and collectors in Europe have announced the launch of a new European wide certification and audit scheme, EuCertPlast which implements existing CEN standard 15343 on post-consumer plastics recycling. ...
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According to a study conducted by the United Nations Commission for Economic and Social Affairs in Asia and the Pacific, revenues from the plastics industry in Bangladesh should reach 2 billion dollars by the end of 2015 and 4 billion ...
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New test protocol for adhesives developed to facilitate thermoform recycling in Canada . Canadian retailers address PET thermoform recycling A new test protocol has been introduced to determine the impact of labels and adhesives on PET ...
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The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) released a new report informing Canadians that their recycling efforts have increased the amount of post-consumer plastic packaging being recycled across Canada. An additional 15% of plastic ...
ISO 14001:1996 Environmental management systems. Requirements with guidance for use BS EN 15347:2007 Plastics. Recycled Plastics. Characterization of plastics waste BS EN 15342: 2007 Characterisation of polystyrene (PS) recyclates BS EN ...
Artenius PET Packaging Europe, Distrupol and Engel UK were among the winners at last night’s glittering U.K.'s Plastics Industry Awards, which were held in the London Hilton on Park Lane. The ceremony, the 11th annual event to be run ...
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