The U.S. recycled PET (rPET) market is under unprecedented pressure in 2026, with cheap imports, declining demand, and shrinking domestic capacity stressing the circular economy and plant operators.
Loop Industries and Ester Industries reach a major milestone as their India joint venture awards detailed engineering to Toyo, advancing the Infinite Loop PET recycling project toward construction.
Chemical recycling is emerging as the next major step in the transition to a circular plastics economy, addressing complex packaging waste streams and enabling polymers to be regenerated to virgin-quality.
Avantium’s Releaf® PEF has received full recycling approval in Japan’s PET bottle stream, marking a major milestone for renewable and circular beverage packaging
Procotex France leverages recycled carbon fibre to deliver high-performance, lower-cost solutions that slash embedded CO₂, showing how sustainability competes at scale in composites
