Greenstar WES, based in the U.K., reports that it hit new production records in December, producing nearly 700 metric tons of food-grade recycled HDPE plastic flake, taking its 2009 production total ...

Austrian packaging and recycling company ALPLA has secured government funding in the Netherlands and set up a new recycling ...

The U.K.-based firm Viridor has invested more than £1million (US$1.7 million) in an advanced flake optical sorting station on the HDPE line at its polymer recycling facility in Skelmersdale, U.K. The ...

Chemists at Argonne National Laboratory in DuPage County have worked out a new way to recycle certain plastics infinitely, a discovery that could change the way we recycle containers like those used ...

For the second straight year, post-consumer high density polyethylene recycling has remained stagnant. The U.S. recycling rate for HDPE remained at 29.9 percent in 2011 with pounds recycled dropping ...

Biffa has revealed it has recycled 10 billion plastic HDPE milk bottles since becoming the first company in the UK to process ...

The Polyolefin Responsibility Organisation (Polyco) is investing in infrastructure and end-use development that is essential to growing the collection, recycling and beneficiation of polyolefin ...

TORONTO (Oct. 10, 9:30 a.m. ET) — For the second straight year, post-consumer high density polyethylene recycling has remained stagnant. The North American recycling rate for HDPE remained at 29.9 ...