The new APR PCR certification program created by the Association of Plastics Recyclers (APR) in the US has seen much faster acceptance in the marketplace than anticipated, the association has announced.

Styrenics supplier Ineos Styrolution, and Recycling Technologies, a specialist plastic recycling technology provider  signed a joint development agreement (JDA) earlier today to further advance the development of recycling of polystyrene in Europe.

Fanning the flames of the controversy in the U.S. about chemical recycling,  a new report published by the environmentalist group Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) roundly rejects all suggestions that the technology represents a "silver bullet solution to the plastic crisis."

In a move that is directed at both providing greater transparency and helping its customers to effectively lower their CO2 emissions, BASF is providing its customers with information about the carbon footprints of all of its products — all 45,000 of them.

The last meeting of the European Council ended with decisions that will have major implications for the plastics processing industry, writes Tomasz Mikulski, of ML Polyolefins.

The plastic tax agreed last week as part of the new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) — the EU’s financial perspective for the coming seven years — and coronavirus recovery fund will further increase the cost of plastic recycling and encourage the shift to other packaging materials with a bigger environmental impact, according to EuPC Managing Director Alexandre Dangis.

Plastics machinery manufacturer Engel has expanded its operations in the Benelux with a new sales and service office with its own training center in Belgium.