Recycling 
The overall collection rate of PET across Europe rose 2.5% - from 46% to 48.4% - to a total of 1.4m tonnes, according to new figures from industry body Petcore
21 July 2010
The Bangkok-headquartered company is said to be deciding between Alabama and North Carolina for a new PET bottle recycling unit.
12 July 2010
Netherlands-based Whim Architecture has proposed a plan to build an island the size of Hawaii made entirely from plastic waste. The man-made habitat would use the 44 million kilos of plastic waste floating in the Pacific Ocean as its raw material
1 July 2010
Germany-based Hamos Recycling und Separationstechnik has developed a complete system for recovery of high grade plastics from mixtures of that are difficult to separate, such as WEEE electrical waste or automotive shredder residues
29 June 2010
Design firm Emesco is selling a version of its popular Navy chair made out of recycled Coca-Cola bottles
29 June 2010
The ICM system from German machinery producer MBM has been designed to transform waste plastic products into new low stress mouldings. European Plastics News visited MBM to see how the system can be used to make plastic palettes
17 June 2010
The European Plastics Recyclers association says "leakage" of collected PET bottles to the Far East is a key obstacle in further development of Europe's recycling industry.
27 May 2010
Erema’s rPET produced on Vacurema recycling systems can now be used for food packaging that withstands temperature of above 120°C, after the US Food and Drug Administration upgraded its approval
29 April 2010
AWS Eco Plastics has secured a contract with Waste Recycling Group (WRG) to collect and recycle baled plastic bottles from WRG’s Carnaby and Luton sites in the UK
22 April 2010
PepsiCo wants to help increase beverage container recycling rates to 50% in the US by 2018, according to a new report the beverage maker published this week
29 March 2010
Alba Group, Germany’s second largest recycling company, is calling for a general recycling sorting and collection system, that can accept all kinds of plastic products, for the home
25 March 2010
Austrian recycling machinery firm Erema has launched the TVEplus system for recycling heavily printed plastics
24 February 2010
European Plastics Recyclers (EuPR) has published a report in which it warns of the potential harm oxo-degradables and biodegradable plastics may present to established recovery streams
2 February 2010
Carpet Recycling UK has enlisted the help of Axion, a recycling specialist, in turning old PP carpets into polymer pellets that can be injection moulded into new products
19 January 2010
To help promote the recycling of plastics, the European Association of Plastics Recycling and Recovery Organisations (EPRO) ran a competition during 2009 – open to all European manufacturers – to find the best commercial product made from at least 50% recycled plastic
7 January 2010
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