Recycling

Royal DSM, a global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, and SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, today announced a collaboration to create recycled-based Dyneema®. Through a joint pilot with multiple CirculariTeam® members, the manufacturing and usage of Dyneema® using mixed plastic waste as feedstock (via mass balance approach) will be successfully demonstrated. It is an important step toward the future goal of fully closing the loop by delivering Dyneema® made from ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMwPE) waste. This collaboration underlines DSM’s and SABIC’s efforts to accelerate a circular economy for materials.

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R-Cycle wins the German Sustainability Award 2021

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Covestro a member of the drafting committee of China’s Guobiao (GB) standards on recycled polycarbonates

Unified quality specifications for recycled polycarbonates from post-consumer and post-industrial waste

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Aluminium is an infinitely recyclable material, with over 75% of all the aluminium ever produced still in use today. And yet craft brewers often feel they have no choice but to contaminate aluminium beverage cans with plastic labels or shrink sleeves. Here, Rob Day, CEO at Tonejet looks at beverage can decoration, the damage caused by the use of plastic labels and sleeves on cans and why alternative digital technologies are the sustainable solution.

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• Premiere: Erste gemeinsame IMD-Demonstration von Arburg und Leonhard Kurz

• Innovatives Folienhinterspritzen: Effiziente und flexible Dekoration von Bedienblenden
• Automatisiert: Robot-System Multilift V 40 für schonende Handhabung

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• Premiere: First joint IMD demonstration by Arburg and Leonhard Kurz

• Innovative in-mould film lamination: efficient and flexible decoration of control panels
• Automated: MULTILIFT V 40 robotic system for gentle handling

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Once more, the IK initiative ERDE (Crop Plastics Recycling Germany) was able to significantly increase its collection volumes in 2020. At 543 fixed collection points and 1936 mobile collections, a total of 26,910 tons of agricultural films were collected and recycled. The amount corresponds to 51 percent of all silage and stretch film placed on the German market, this year’s report from the ERDE initiative to the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) confirms.

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OneCircle announces new partnership with French collection partner ELISE Alsace.

OneCircle, producer of the KeyKeg and the UniKeg, is proud to present their latest partnership with collection partner ELISE Alsace; experts in collecting and recycling all types of waste. ELISE Alsace will be collecting used KeyKegs® throughout the Alsace region, which will later be recycled to fulfil their circular design and re-used into new KeyKegs®. The collaboration with ELISE Alsace further expands the established collection community within France.

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This partnership represents an initial investment and an invitation to stakeholders across the plastics recycling value chain to join forces with this catalytic capital strategy

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Dow (NYSE: DOW) and Mengniu, China’s leading dairy company, today announced the successful commercialization of a collation shrink film made with Dow’s post-consumer recycled (PCR) resins in Mengniu’s product packaging. Amongst the first for the food and beverage industry in Asia Pacific, the newly formulated one-pellet resin is 100% recyclable and will be used in Mengniu’s secondary packaging for dairy products. This collaboration aligns with Dow’s sustainability commitment to stop the waste by enabling 1 million tons of plastic to be collected, reused, or recycled through its direct actions and partnerships by 2030.

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