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SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF. (Feb. 3, 12:15 p.m. ET) -- The Save the Plastic Bag Coalition has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to overturn the ban on plastic bags in San Luis Obispo County, California.
February 3, 2012
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
SAN ANTONIO (Feb. 2, 1 p.m. ET) -- Plug-in electric cars and hybrids may be getting most of the attention now, but carmakers say they still are investing in future car developments that could use another technology that has been on the automotive back burner for years. “Hydrogen fuel cells are being talked about for the near future,” Hyundai Motor Co.’s North American leader John Krafcik said during the North American International Auto Show.
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
BRUSSELS (Jan. 31, 1 p.m. ET) -- More than 70 percent of people surveyed in the European Union support a ban on plastic bags. The survey was done to explore options to reduce the use of plastic bags and how to improve the requirements of biodegradability under EU law, according to a news release.
January 31, 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
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
ELGIN, ILL. (Jan. 30, 3:15 p.m. ET) -- DSM Functional Materials, an Elgin-based division of Royal DSM, is teaming up with Brazil-based Empresa Brasileira de Biotechnologia (Ebrabiotech) to work on bio-based materials.
January 30, 2012
BRUSSELS (Jan. 30, 3:15 p.m. ET) -- The European Commission is concerned that France has incorrectly implemented the definition of packaging and packaging waste in its national law, as required by European Union waste legislation.
January 30, 2012
WASHINGTON (Jan. 30, 1:20 p.m. ET) -- The amount of activity at the federal level affecting the plastics industry isn’t expected to be high this year, as election-year politics are likely to slow things to a crawl. But the industry has its eyes on several key issues, and is watching for new regulatory challenges and initiatives, particularly from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
January 30, 2012
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