Recycling News

Fungi Makes Meal of Hard to Recycle Plastic Polypropylene, a hard to recycle plastic, has successfully been biodegraded by two strains of fungi in a new experiment led by researchers at the University of Sydney. Polypropylene has long been recycling’s head scratching riddle. A common plastic...

Co-Op Employs Polytag’s Innovative Recycling Technology for Unprecedented Traceability of Its Spring Water Bottles Recycling technology innovator, Polytag, is set to apply both unique-every-time QR codes and UV tags to Co-op own-label PET 2-litre spring water bottles in an industry-first, offering the convenience retailer unprecedented...

Sustainable Plastics from Eastman Circular Recycling Technologies for Better India - Live Webinar Sustainable Plastics from Eastman Circular Recycling Technologies for Better India - Live Webinar, Tuesday, February 21 - 2023 Powered by Modern Plastics India, Modern Plastics TV Modern Plastics TV Worlds First Online TV...

University of Birmingham and Stopford Announce New Funding for Novel Plastics Recycling Technology A research consortium comprising technologists from the University of Birmingham and engineering firm Stopford has been awarded a further £300k of funding from Innovate UK to develop a novel plastic recycling technology. The...

Textiles Recycling: The Sorting Challenge To this day, only a tiny fraction of discarded textiles is recycled. While the clothing industry has doubled production in the last 15 years, the time garments are worn has fallen by more than 30%. At the same time, the...

Back to the Cycle: #tide Turns Ocean Plastic into High-Quality Recyclates Interview with Marc Krebs, Co-Founder & CCO, Tide Ocean SA Plastic is a resource without which our life today would not be possible - and thanks to recycling, we can even use it several times...