APR releases proactive PET caps guidance, aligning recyclers and packaging producers to protect RPET quality, support mono-material design, and strengthen long-term recyclability standards.
The U.S. Plastics Pact introduces a national framework to strengthen flexible packaging recycling, focusing on design standards, collection systems and end market development.
Aimplas leads the Redes4Value project to recycle nylon fishing nets into high-performance materials, closing the loop on polyamides and reducing marine pollution through advanced recycling technologies.
Solving plastics recycling challenges requires advanced additives that stabilize recycled feedstock, improve processing, and enable high-quality products in a truly circular economy.
Faerch accelerates circular packaging by expanding tray rPET production through its Cirrec recycling division, securing supply stability, quality assurance, and long-term resilience for food packaging customers across Europe.
New research shows that both virgin and recycled PET bottles can leach toxic additives and hazardous chemicals, intensifying scrutiny of plastics amid rising recycled content mandates.
The European PET Bottle Platform has opened a major industry consultation on Design for Circularity guidelines, aiming to reshape PET bottle recycling and strengthen Europe’s circular economy.
As the European plastics recycling industry teeters on the brink, major players LyondellBasell and Eastman Chemical Company push for legally binding targets requiring packaging to use recycled plastic collected and processed locally — a move they say is essential to preserve jobs, maintain supply-chain integrity, and avoid flooding the market with imported, low-quality recyclates.
The European Union is considering mass-balance accounting for chemical recycling in bottles, raising hopes for circular plastics but igniting criticisms over traceability and greenwashing.
