Lotte Chemical Halts Key Recycling Plant Project Amid Industry Slump
Lotte Chemical abandons its ₩77B plastic recycling plant in Ulsan to preserve liquidity amid cheap Chinese competition and industry restructuring.
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Groundbreaking Plant Based Food Packaging Solutions Disrupt Traditional Plastics Market
Groundbreaking Plant Based Food Packaging Solutions Disrupt Traditional Plastics Market The global drive toward circular industrial materials reached a defining milestone as rigid film manufacturing giant Klöckner Pentaplast (kp) entered into a strategic capacity reservation agreement with chemical technology innovator Avantium. The deal centers on evaluating and scaling next-generation plant based food packaging using polyethylene…
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Breakthrough Innovation: Covestro Launches World-First Circular Elastomer Recycling Plant
Covestro launches a breakthrough pilot plant in Leverkusen for chemical circular elastomer recycling, converting tough end-of-life polyurethane waste into high-purity industrial materials.
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Transformative PET Decarbonization Roadmap Marks a Positive Shift for U.S. Packaging
NAPCOR’s new PET decarbonization roadmap shows how the U.S. packaging industry can cut emissions up to 57% by 2050 while production grows, thanks to recycling, efficiency and innovation.
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Digital Watermark Recycling Gets a Powerful Real-World Test
Mondelēz International, PepsiCo and pladis are testing whether invisible digital watermarks can improve the sorting of flexible food packaging collected in Belgium. The project could help create cleaner recycling streams, but food-contact safety and commercial viability still need to be demonstrated.
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Bioplastics in Textiles and Packaging: 2026 Guide
Bioplastics in textiles packaging Bioplastics in Textiles and Packaging: The Sustainable Revolution As global supply chains face mounting regulatory pressure and rising consumer demand for environmental accountability, traditional petro-based synthetics are being actively re-evaluated. Central to this transition is the adoption of bioplastics in textiles and packaging—a category of engineered materials derived from renewable biological…
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Japan Recycled Plastic Demand Soars to Unprecedented 596,000 Tons
Driven by mandatory reporting laws and ambitious corporate sustainability targets, Japan’s domestic consumption of recycled resin is reaching historic levels across packaging, automotive, and electronics sectors.
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Unlocking Europe’s €555 Billion Circular Economy: Why Structural Demand Reform Cannot Wait
The European recycling sector generates €555B annually, but stagnant material use rates threaten EU targets. Discover key findings from the TEHA-CONAI study and necessary industrial reforms.
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Plastic Waste Crisis: Alarming 72 Million-Tonne Warning for 2026
Plastic Overshoot Day reveals why improving recycling has not stopped the global volume of mismanaged plastic waste from rising.
