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UK recycler Axion Polymers seeking partners in Asia

HANGZHOU, CHINA (Nov. 6, 1:45 p.m. ET) -- Axion Polymers, a recycled materials manufacturer in England, wants to extend its business to Asia by setting up partnerships with a handful of Chinese and Asian compounders. The company sees rising interest in using more carbon friendly materials in the small-appliance factories of Asia. November 6, 2009

Foam recycling center opens in Washington state

TUMWATER, WASH. (Nov. 6, 1:10 p.m. ET) -- Dart Container Corp., in conjunction with Thurston County Solid Waste, today unveiled a drop-off site for post-consumer polystyrene foam in Tumwater. November 6, 2009

Mexico Coke bottler saving money with lightweight preforms

MEXICO CITY (Nov. 5, 11:35 a.m. ET) -- Coca-Cola FEMSA SA de CV plans to extend the use of its PET short-height bottle finishes from Mexico to all its markets in Latin America within 12 months. The design cuts the weight of the company’s 16-ounce bottles to 20.5 grams, and has saved the bottler about $10 million in PET resin annually. November 5, 2009

Denton's new PET recycling plant in Oregon may be first of many

PORTLAND, ORE. (Nov. 4, 4:35 p.m. ET) -- Dennis Denton sees the new 30-million-pound PET recycling plant that he and two other partners are building in St. Helens, Ore., as the prototype and forerunner of the way plastics will be recycled in the future -- not just the first PET recycling plant in the Pacific Northwest. Long-range, perhaps three years from now, Denton said ORPET plans to form joint ventures and build recycling plants with companies that need recycled PET, such as firms that thermoform clamshell containers. November 4, 2009

Start-up compounder opening in Ohio

LIMA, OHIO (Nov. 3, 3:55 p.m. ET) -- Start-up compounder Planet Friendly Polymers plans to open a plant in Lima by the end of the year. The firm plans to spend $1.3 million on the 50,000-square-foot plant. Some of the plant’s output will be sold on the open market, with the rest going to products marketed by a sister company that sells plastic containers and storage products. November 3, 2009

Engineering resin recycler MRC Polymers wins Illinois green award

CHICAGO (Nov. 2, 3:50 p.m. ET) -- Chicago-based engineering plastics recycler MRC Polymers Inc. recently received the 2009 Governor’s Sustainability Award for recycling millions of pounds of landfill-bound car bumpers. November 2, 2009

Court approves N.Y.'s expanded deposit law

ALBANY, N.Y. (Oct. 29, 12:10 p.m. ET) -- After several delays and a court challenge, the expansion of the New York bottle deposit program to include water bottles will go into effect Oct. 31, nearly five months after originally scheduled. New York is the third state this year and sixth overall to include water bottles in its deposit program. October 29, 2009

Slumping virgin resin sales help boost U.S. bottle recycling rate

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (Oct. 28, 1:20 p.m. ET) -- In absolute pounds, the number of high density polyethylene and PET bottles recycled continued to increase in 2008, and so did the HDPE and PET recycling rates. But the amount of pounds added to the recycling stream in 2008 for reclaimers was less than in 2007, and the primary reason that both recycling rates increased was because both sales of virgin HDPE and PET resins decreased in 2008. October 28, 2009

Changes planned for resin identification codes include categories for PC, PLA

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (Oct. 26, 1:55 p.m. ET) -- ASTM International Inc. has developed some possible changes to the plastics industry resin identification code. The standards-setting body recently asked its members to vote on 18 different items, including modifying the definition of PET and adding classifications for polylactic acid, polycarbonate and linear low density polyethylene. October 26, 2009

Higher U.S. PET recycling numbers mask some problems

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (Oct. 23, 11:55 a.m. ET) -- The amount of PET bottles recycled increased for the sixth straight year in 2008 to more than 1.45 billion pounds, catapulting the PET recycling rate to 27 percent, its highest level since 1997. But the otherwise strong PET recycling numbers mask several troubling trends. October 23, 2009

US PET recycling rate highest since 1997

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (Oct. 22, 12:50 p.m. ET) -- PET container recycling was up significantly in 2008. More than 1.45 billion pounds of PET bottles were collected in the United States, which was a new record, and the recycling rate hit 27 percent. Demand for recycled PET actually shrunk in some traditionally important markets — fiber, including carpeting; and strapping. But growing use of recycled PET in food and beverage bottles and sheet more than made up the difference. October 22, 2009

ORPET to build PET recycling plant in Oregon

PORTLAND, ORE. (Oct. 21, 4:05 p.m. ET) -- A new partnership plans to build a PET bottle recycling plant near St. Helens, Ore. ORPET is a partnership between private investors including Dennis Denton, owner of Portland recycler Denton Plastics Inc., and the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative (OBRC), the administrator of the state's bottle deposit program. October 21, 2009

Mexico plastics industry plans PR campaign to battle bag bans

MEXICO CITY (Oct. 19, 10:55 p.m. ET) -- Mexico’s plastic industry has launched a counterattack against its detractors, including legislators who voted in March to ban the use of non-degradable plastic bags in all Mexico City stores. The industry fears that, if the authorities in Mexico are not persuaded otherwise, all the other 31 states in Mexico will follow and ban bags and other type of plastic packaging. To combat the bans, the industry plans to launch a national public relations campaign that emphasizes the role that plastics play in Mexico's economy. October 19, 2009

Marin County joins communities with PS bans

SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. (Oct. 14, 2:20 p.m. ET) — Marin County will soon become the fourth largest region in California to ban the use of polystyrene takeout containers, creating a string of bans, impacting roughly 2 million people, in the northern California communities and regions that surround San Francisco. Supervisors cited a number of reasons for the ban, including litter and the lack of demand for recycled PS. October 14, 2009

Schwarzenegger vetoes bottle bill

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (Oct. 13, 4:25 p.m. ET) -- The effort to expand the bottle bill in California has failed, doomed by a combination of state budgetary problems and the failure of the bill to provide a solution that would help repair the state’s beverage container recycling fund. The bill would have doubled beverage container deposits to 10 cents on July 1. October 13, 2009

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