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ATLANTA (Feb. 3, 11:50 a.m. ET) -- Coca-Cola Co. is increasing the amount of money it allocates to its bin grant program that helps municipalities, communities, organizations, government agencies, schools, colleges and universities purchase recycling bins to $350,000.
February 3, 2012
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. (Feb. 2, 2:30 p.m. ET) -- About six months later than anticipated, CarbonLite Industries LLC has opened its $58 million bottle-to-bottle PET recycling plant in Riverside. The 220,000-square-foot plant -- the largest PET recycling plant in the United States -- will initially produce 75 million pounds of food-grade resin annually.
February 2, 2012
BRANFORD, CONN. (Feb. 2, 2:20 p.m. ET) -- Canusa Hershman Recycling Co. has acquired a building, equipment and other assets of First State Plastics Inc. in New Castle, Del.
February 2, 2012
AS, CZECH REPUBLIC (Feb. 2, 2:15 p.m. ET) -- Plastics packaging technology specialist Petainer Czech Holdings sro has developed a PET refillable bottle, claiming to “further improve the sustainability of what is already one of the most environmentally friendly forms of beverage packaging.”
February 2, 2012
CINCINNATI (Feb. 2, 12:45 p.m. ET) -- Procter & Gamble Co. gave Gillette Fusion ProGlide’s packaging a “future friendly” facelift by reducing plastic and incorporating moldable pulp. With 57 percent less plastic than the original clamshell outer packaging and razor tray, the redesign is made of fibrous materials such as bamboo, sugar cane and bulrush. The result is a 20 percent reduction in gross weight and overall reduction of packaging material.
February 2, 2012
RICHMOND, IND. (Feb. 2, 10:15 a.m. ET) -- Perpetual Recycling Solutions will open its first plastics recycling facility -- a 110-million pound food-grade recycled PET plant in Richmond -- to fill what it sees as a void in the commercial market. The $30 million, 100,000-square-plant has been in the planning stages for more than 16 months and was announced at a Feb. 2 news conference
February 2, 2012
SHELTON, CONN. (Feb. 1, 12:15 p.m. ET) -- The first disposable razor in the U.S. to use 100 percent recycled materials in both its handle and its packaging is expected to keep more than 103,000 pounds of virgin plastics and 15,500 pounds of virgin paper from going into landfills each year.
February 1, 2012
ATLANTA (Jan. 31, 1 p.m. ET) -- In its eighth sustainability report, Coca-Cola Co. gave itself a “B” grade in the areas of economic, environmental and social performance.
January 31, 2012
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA (Jan. 31, 8 a.m.ET) -- The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has delayed releasing its findings into three separate proposed acquisitions of plastics companies.
January 31, 2012
MEXICO CITY (Jan. 30, 3:40 p.m. ET) -- Coca-Cola Co. will invest in excess of $1 billion in Mexico in 2012, CEO Muhtar Kent said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 28.
January 30, 2012
WASHINGTON (Jan. 27, 12:15 p.m. ET) -- Chevrolet will start placing labels on the back window of all its new cars and trucks as a way to tout the eco-friendly benefits its vehicles, General Motors said this week.
January 27, 2012
WASHINGTON (Jan. 26, 2:10 p.m. ET) -- If there was any question about whether plastic bag bans would continue to be the most visible and vexing issue that confronts the plastics industry at the local and state level, those doubts were erased in late January.
January 26, 2012
HONG KONG (Jan. 26, 1:30 p.m. ET) — The classic American plastic yo-yo is becoming big business in China. With savvy promotion by Chinese toy companies, the market has grown from barely a blip six years ago to one of the largest, with one U.S. firm saying China is now the world’s top selling yo-yo market. Check out a
video interview with Duncan Toys Co.'s Mike Burke at the Hong Kong Toy Fair.
January 26, 2012
ZANESVILLE, OHIO (Jan. 25, 1 p.m. ET) -- Coll Materials Exchange LLC is adding a second extrusion line at its plant in Waco, Texas, that will double the capacity at that plant to produce railroad ties made completely from recycled plastic for Axion International Holdings Inc.
January 25, 2012
TRENTON, N.J. (Jan. 24, 11 a.m. ET) -- One of the dirtiest and most demonized portions of the municipal waste stream may soon be diverted from landfills. Developing a recycling solution for used disposable diapers, a biological amalgam of complexity, has been a top priority of the global research and development team at TerraCycle Inc.
January 24, 2012
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