Processes
Aveda packaging executive Edmond Irizarry: "You can be both sustainable and aspirational and that's the journey we're on today from a packaging point of view."
For recovery and reuse of plastics to advance, it will need help from people all along the lifecycle of products, including plastic processors, brand owners, consumers and the recyclers themselves.
Materials firms are trying their best but are confronted with negative images — like a plastic bag stuck in a tree along a busy highway.
Materials firms are trying their best but are confronted with negative images — like a plastic bag stuck in a tree along a busy highway.
What keeps Doug Ritchie of Star Plastics Inc. up at night? "A company our size has to be very strategic about which opportunity we chase ... Do we have the right relationships? Can we adjust to the culture ... and grow our customers?"
Set to be used first by leading brands Tresemmé and Lynx, the new pigment will make it possible to potentially sort and recycle an extra 2,500 metric tons of plastic bottles, Unilever said in a May 20 news release.
A directive will ban items that are most often found on European beaches, including plastic cutlery, plates, straws and cotton swabs as well as abandoned fishing gear and oxo-degradable plastics.
Adding up all that data, we tracked 13.1 billion pounds of recycled material in this list, with more than 78 percent being reprocessed.
General Motors Co. has set its price on a breakthrough. The GMC Sierra with GM's new carbon fiber pickup box will start at nearly $67,000, the company said May 17.
Aaron of Leominster, Mass., has launched Jet-Flo-brand recycled PP compounds. The high melt flow materials use Milliken's DeltaMax-brand performance modifier.
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