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Plastics Recycling Conference
The Plastics Recycling Conference is held in National Harbor, near Washington, D.C.
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COVID-19 has drastically changed the demand for online shopping, even for grocery items. Prior to the pandemic, online sales were 2 to 3 percent of the overall market. That number went as high as 17 percent during the pandemic.
Sustainability, online shopping driving packaging trends
COVID-19 put a temporary hold on trends, but the packaging market is headed toward some permanent changes with a shift emphasizing online shopping, including grocery deliveries.
ACC, lawmakers seek common ground on producer responsibility
A stage at the Plastics Recycling Conference saw some longstanding opponents around recycling policy move toward common ground, Assistant Managing Editor Steve Toloken breaks it down.
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Recycling Partnership funding program to boost PET recovery by recyclers
The Recycling Partnership is creating a PET Recycling Coalition to help pay for technology aimed at capturing more of the PET that already comes through the doors but is lost during reprocessing, writes PN's Jim Johnson.
Jim Johnson
SER North America CEO Lorenzo Ferro says the initial polypropylene recycling line at the company's new facility in Anderson, Ind., is already sold out.
Demand prompts SER to double PP recycling capacity in Indiana
SER North America is ramping up production on two new processing lines with a combined annual capacity of 35 million pounds, CEO Lorenzo Ferro said during a March 8 interview at the Plastics Recycling Conference in National Harbor.
Jim Johnson
Emily Friedman, recycled plastic senior market editor for consulting firm ICIS, said packaging firms will need to have "exponential growth" to reach targets on using recycled content.
Plastic recycling targets face supply, processing hurdles in the years ahead
Companies with sustainability goals centered around greatly expanding the use of recycled plastics are facing a one-two punch as deadlines draw closer.
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