Recycling

By enhancing additive compatibility, it helps resin producers and converters experience less downtime, less waste, and quicker changeovers.

The facility will expand local capacity, ensure bottle-to-bottle recycling at world-class standards.

The scheme recorded a 200% year-on-year increase in collection and recycling, rising from just 8% in 2023 to 24% collection and 26% recycling in 2024.

The closure underscores a wider crisis in Singapore’s paper recycling sector.

Trials for the new packaging began in autumn 2024, conducted by Idaho Package and Wada Farms.

The new industrial hub will focus on aluminium extrusion.

The system is designed to provide consumers with a financial incentive to return empty beverage containers.

The funding will support two modern plants for recycled PET (rPET), one in Ghana and one in Nigeria.

Once fully ramped up, the company will produce 420,000 tonnes of high-quality recycled containerboard annually

The primary issue is a new draft EU methodology for calculating the recycled content of plastic via a “mass balance” approach.