[Dave Hakkens] graduated from the Design Academy of Eindhoven and decided to try his hand at making affordable plastic recycling machines. His reasoning? “We recycle just 10% [of waste plastic ...

Recent concerns about contaminants in black-colored plastics sparked consumer concerns, but there’s more than one reason to ...

“Today, the behaviour is not towards recycling, and we are trying to change that,” Waters said. He said he did not know how many plastic bottles the machine would get. “We will accumulate ...

Equipment manufacturer Machinex, Plessisville, Quebec, has announced a recent collaboration with Orlando-based advanced recycler PureCycle Technologies Inc. to develop a 100 percent-automated sorting ...

As a proof of concept, it seems as though this machine was made from repurposed plastic, but it could also be made using whatever filament you happen to have on hand. As far as recycling goes ...

At R&B Plastics Machinery LLC in Saline ... Uniloy's Tomlin said initiatives and mandates related to post-consumer recycling present machine builders with new issues to solve, but "hiring talent ...

In specific markets, PET bales remained the highest volume plastic waste commodity in 2024. The price in mid-December for curbside PET bales (mixed colors) was 17.5cts/lb FOB east of the Rockies, up ...

Kansas county sues resin makers over recycling claims A class-action ... 2025 sees slow recovery amid challenges The plastics machinery industry experienced a slow 2024 but shows signs of rebound ...

European plastic extrusion surges behind rising construction activity, bio-based polymer adoption, and machine automation.

The trick is to install the correct machines. A German company ... are two main reasons why lots of the UK’s plastic waste is ...

PETFusion 2.0, a PET Bottle Recycler that converts them into 3D printing filament, has launched onto Kickstarter and quickly ...