Plastics Recycling

Consolidated Container buys two plastic recycling firms

Published in July 2014

Consolidated Container Co. (CCC) has acquired sister companies Envision Plastics Industries LLC and Ecoplast Corp. Atlanta-based CCC, a rigid plastic packaging company already with...

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Plastics Recycling

Plastics machinery shipments stay strong in Q4

Published in May 2014

Business levels for manufacturers and suppliers of primary plastics machinery (injection molding, extrusion, blow molding and thermoforming equipment) posted another strong quarterly performance in...

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Plastics Recycling

Kureha America’s Fred Daniell chairs new SPI board of directors; new officers elected

Published in May 2014

In serving the third largest U.S. manufacturing sector, SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association works to protect and promote nearly 900,000 plastics jobs spanning...

adminMay 29, 2014

Plastics Recycling

OSHA fines New Wave Plastics

Published in May 2014

New Wave Plastics has been cited for 13 safety violations after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) found a...

adminMay 29, 2014

Plastics Recycling

Sonoco’s Ohio rigid plastics facility achieves LEED Silver

Published in May 2014

Sonoco, a global packaging company, revealed that its New Albany, Ohio, rigid plastics facility has achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver...

adminMay 29, 2014

Plastics Recycling

Greater profits seen in recovering and recycling food packaging

Published in April 2014

by MIKE BRESLIN The more we can recover and recycle food packaging materials the greater the possibility that municipal recycling facilities (MRFs) can generate...

adminApril 29, 2014

Plastics Recycling

MRC Polymers and SBC Recycling collaborate

Published in April 2014

SBC Recycling, headquartered in Centerburg, Ohio has entered into a collaborative recycling agreement with MRC Polymers of Romeoville, Illinois. SBC Recycling will utilize...

adminApril 28, 2014

Plastics Recycling

Recycling of rigid plastics surpasses one billion pounds

Published in April 2014

The recycling of rigid plastics excluding bottles rose to nearly 1.02 billion pounds in 2012, an increase of 10 percent over 2011 and triple...

adminApril 28, 2014

Plastics Recycling

Plastic bottles recycled into walls

Published in April 2014

Greenhouse made using recycled bottles, located at WW Knight Preserve in Wood County, Ohio.

adminApril 14, 2014

Plastics Recycling

Social sharing to increase recycling of plastic wraps

Published in March 2014

In an effort to educate more consumers about the ease of recycling flexible plastic wraps, the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) Flexible Film Recycling Group...

adminMarch 27, 2014