WASHINGTON — Wood-alternative decking company Trex Co. Inc. is revamping its thin-film collection and recycling program in Southern California, with hopes of eventually expanding the program to all 50 states.
DALTON, GA. — Members of the Carpet America Recovery Effort kept more than 351 million pounds of carpet out of U.S. landfills in 2012, the organization's annual report indicates. That's roughly 10 percent of the 3.54 billion pounds of carpet CARE estimates was discarded in 2012.
ISTANBUL — VinylPlus, the European PVC industry sustainable development program, registered 362,076 metric tons of PVC recycled last year, keeping it on track to meet the challenge of recycling 800,000 metric tons per year by 2020.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK., — Delta Plastics of the South LLC, a manufacturer of flexible agricultural tubing and accessories, has acquired certain assets of Continental Products Inc.
HARD, AUSTRIA — Austrian plastics molder Alpla Holding GmbH has opened a new 9 million euro ($11.8 million) PET recycling plant in the Radomsko district of the special economic zone of Lodz, Poland.
CONCORD, N.C. — Most department stores take the linear low and high density polyethylene and other film materials, shove them in garbage bags and throw them away. But a recycling program launched by Indianapolis-based real estate giant Simon Property Group Inc. is hoping to change that.
BRUSSELS — Europe is being swamped by a tide of low value plastic waste, much of which is currently going to landfill – a situation that is of growing concern to the EU. Now, a European Commission Green Paper on plastic waste has been given a cautious welcome by the European plastics industry bodies Plastics Recyclers Europe, European...
WASHINGTON — The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers released a statement reiterating its opposition to the use of degradable additives in recyclable packaging and films.
ORLANDO, FLA. -- The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries' Scrap Theft Alert system, an online system that helps connect scrap companies with law enforcement, is set to be upgraded amid spiking cases of material theft from scrap yards and other processors.
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