Project Beacon, which has the potential to recycle all plastics in Scotland and beyond, has secured £3m funding. Project Beacon, at Binn Farm in Perthshire, is lighting the way to a circular world of complete plastics recycling ...
Tags: Plastic Recycling
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has awarded $1m for five new recyclable and compostable packaging solutions to stop plastics becoming waste. The foundation launched its $2m New Plastics Economy innovation prize, funded by Wendy Schmidt, to ...
Mineral water brand evian announced its plans to use 100% recycled materials for its packaging by 2025. The company says that this ‘circular approach’ will keep the plastic within the economy and out from nature. To achieve ...
UNTHA UK said it will showcase its new packaging, pallet and plastics shredder, at the PPMA Show this September. The QR series is claimed to be a high throughput shredder, which is capable of handling everything ranging from wooden ...
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Italian intellectual property firm Bio-on has developed bioplastic material aimed at creating new sustainable and biodegradable food packaging materials in the future. Developed with a budget of €4m, the bioplastic will be featuring ...
The Ecover Ocean Bottle, which holds Ecover’s washing-up liquid, is made entirely from recycled plastic, with 10% collected from the sea. The washing-up liquid itself has been developed with a special ‘sea lavender and ...
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Belgium-based cleaning products manufacturer Ecover has introduced new bottle, which is produced from waste plastic taken out of the ocean. Claimed to be manufactured completely from recycled plastic that includes 10% of plastic from the ...
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With the increasing demand for plastic parts across the world, the demand for China Mould Manufacturer is also on the rise. China still leads the world in the production of plastic molds. It is a well known fact that the world requires ...
Most of the products we use today, particularly components of large products, are made using a process called injection molding. It requires the use of mold cavities into which materials in molten state are poured and solidified to form ...
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This week sees the official launch of a highly innovative initiative supported by Ecover and Closed Loop Recycling, which sees waste plastic being collected from the seas around the UK by EU fishermen and sent to the UK for recycling at ...
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The ban covers all conventional and bio-based plastic bags and other plastic products, except those made from oxo-biodegradable plastic, according to the Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA). In a statement, the ...
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Australia-based Replas is set to build a new plastic recycling facility in 2013 in South East Queensland. Planned to funded equally by Australian Packaging Covenant (APC) and the Queensland Government, the $600,000 facility will ...
We asked Stephen Lloyd,director of marketing and business development for Systems Labelling,to provide us with additional details regarding the company's intriguing R-IML technology that makes the in-mold labels for in-mold labeling ...
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Foreseeing WPC (wood plastic composite) to become one of the world’s trend-setting green building materials, Chen Yu Plastic Machine Co., Ltd., a supplier of plastic product making machines, is poised for mass production of WPC plate ...
PlasticsEurope director Wilfried Haensel says there are still opportunities for the region’s plastics industry, despite all the ongoing economic uncertainties facing the Eurozone. This year has brought the industry back from the ...
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