A new capital support competition has been launched by the Waste & Resources Action Programme to encourage closed-loop recycling of post-use HDPE plastic bottles in food contact applications, ...

Total, a France-based petrochemical company, has introduced a range of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) circular compounds with high levels of recycled content, which it will make available to its ...

Austrian company Starlinger viscotec has received FDA approval for its deCON decontamination dryer to make food-grade flakes from post-consumer recycled HDPE (high density polyethylene) milk bottles.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is investigating complaints from an advertising watchdog that "recyclable" claims on much-touted high density polyethylene toothpaste tubes from ...

Scientists have developed a new method for recycling high-density polyethylene (HDPE). Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP) have ...

Learn about seven types of plastics, their recycling methods, processing challenges, and how recycled plastic is converted ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF and the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) have launched the MultiCycCon research project.

The team converted would-be trash into recyclable treasure. Plastics are incredible materials with properties invaluable to the functioning of our modern world. They are strong, flexible, versatile, ...

The American Chemistry Council announced at the Plastics Recycling Conference that recycling access for HDPE rigid cups, tubs, and containers and PET trays, clamshells, and cups has crossed the 60% ...

Washington — The Recycled Materials Association (ReMA) and the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) have released updated recycled plastic specifications covering high density polyethylene bottles, ...