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 ...

The HDPE market is set to capitalize on infrastructure spending, chemical-recycling growth, and rising demand for hydrogen-ready pipes. Opportunities lie in public housing in India/ASEAN, e-commerce ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Legally binding policies are shaping material flows and securing predictable market growth. EU producers are expected to ...

Global packaging and recycling company Alpla Group continues to pursue a strategy of expanding its recycling activities worldwide with the construction of a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) recycling ...

While recycling plastic has come a long way in these environmentally conscious times, there are still many strides to be made to fully recycle all post-consumer plastics. Scientists at the Department ...

Our general lack of recycling and reuse of what one would think are recyclable is adding to huge trash piles across the world. Ever since Dustin Hoffman heard the word “Plastics” in 1967, these ...