The HDPE recycling rate had risen from 26 percent in 2007 to 29.9 in 2010. However, the increase in the recycling rate in 2010 was miniscule — just 0.30 percent, meaning that the rate has been ...

Through the process, the recycled HDPE also became potentially biodegradable: The chemists inserted a functional group into the plastic's polymer chain that would allow bacterial enzymes to attach ...

Inhance Technologies, a Houston-based international supplier of sustainable polymer materials science solutions, developed Enkase, a barrier system that makes it possible to recycle more high ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to Towards Chemical and Materials, the global recycled plastics in green building materials market size was valued ...

Envision Plastics has begun full scale production of its recycled HDPE plastic resin for use in food and drink packaging.

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 ...

The recycled material re-enters the economy instead of polluting the environment or ending up in landfill. Polyco's research also proved that demand for white or transparent post-consumer HDPE ...