The American Beverage Association and large soft drink makers announced a $100 million joint investment on Oct. 29 to boost PET bottle recycling in the United States and reduce the industry's use of virgin plastic.
A summary of the Northeast Recycling Council’s fall conference.
This session will provide an in depth overview of how to incorporate postconsumer recycled content into your package, Walmart's PCR goals and feasible % PCR by packaging format, as well as how to source and reduce costs of PCR.Less Click here to view the presentation slides. Click here to view a recording of the webinar.
Last week, the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) held the first ever APR Design® for Plastics Recyclability Regional Training Conference. Consumer brand companies, resin producers, packaging manufacturers, and others assembled to learn how materials flow through the recycling system. Van Dyk Recycling Solutions hosted the event at its state-of...
The increasingly ubiquitous products still contain lots of virgin plastic. While one new company is advancing a bio-based replacement, others say their models can only handle so much recycled resin.
"Recycling 2.0" will require strategic thinking, a unified vision and plenty of cash, according to the Recycling Partnership, which in a report released Monday sets forth a three-step plan for transforming recycling in the United States and ushering in an era of circularity, particularly for plastics.
In early October 2019, the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) held its fall membership meeting where the supply-demand imbalance was the focus of attention.
One recycling myth we can clear up right now.
CEO Steve Alexander's comments came during a weekend panel discussion about managing the effects of plastics production at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Colorado.
This session will provide an in depth overview of flexible packaging (bags/wraps/films), uses, packaging components, and design features that may affect recyclability. Click here to view the presentation slides. Click here to view a recording of the webinar.
Plastics recycling professionals converged last week to discuss market dynamics, emerging technologies and other key industry trends.
"We are very disappointed with the decision to veto the [recycled content] bill," said Steve Alexander. "APR is committed to do all we can to continue to support the growth and expansion of plastic recycling, including minimum content requirements and other policies that will strengthen markets for all recycled materials."
The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) today strongly urged California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign AB 792, “Recycling: Plastic Containers: Minimum Recycled Content and Labeling.”
The APR Recycling Demand Champions Campaign spurred more than triple the amount of recycled resin demand from its initial year.
APR Recycling Demand Champions program has generated almost 26 million pounds of new demand for postconsumer resin (PCR) this year, more than tripling the amount generated in the first year.
This session will provide an in depth overview of HDPE and PP packaging, uses, packaging components, and design features that may affect recyclability. Click here to view the presentation slides. Click here to view a recording of the webinar.
This session will provide an in depth overview of PET packaging, uses, packaging components, and design features that may affect recyclability. Click here to view the presentation slides. Click here to view the handout. Click here to view a recording of the webinar.
The Association of Plastic Recyclers is taking to the road in a first-ever regional training program centered around its recycling design guidelines.
Kara Pochiro: "Plastic recycling isn't dead, and it works, and it's important to protecting our environment, and it's essential to the circular economy."
Amidst all the media coverage about plastic recycling, the team at APR has produced a new video to help shine a light on an important missing part of the conversation: Demand drives recycling. The recently released video explains that consumers can and do play an integral role in the effectiveness of the recycling chain – both by putting recyclable...
