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Flexible Plastic Packaging One Step Closer to Curbside Recycling

2020-07-10 09:00:00| Waste Age

The Materials Recovery for the Future (MRFF) consortiums flexible plastic packaging recycling pilot has been deemed successful. The goal of the pilot was to determine if flexible plastic packaging collected loose in residential single-stream carts c

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Major Investments Needed for the Recycling of Flexible Packaging

2020-07-09 09:00:00| Waste Age

There is a demand for flexible packaging, but historically it has caused problems for recyclers. Yearly, 15 metric tons of flexible film are put on the EU market, of which nine metric tons are polyethylene (PE), however, Europe only recyc

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Efforts Underway to Design Packaging for Recycling

2020-07-07 09:00:00| Waste Age

How recyclable a package is depends on its design. And between new innovations in some of these designs and a spike in shear volumes of these spent products, materials recovery facilities (MRF) are hard pressed to manage what comes into their plants.

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MRFs & Brands Working Together to Design Packaging for Recycling

2020-07-07 09:00:00| Waste Age

How recyclable a package is depends on its design. And between new innovations in some of these designs and a spike in sheer volumes of these spent products, materials recovery facilities (MRF) are hard pressed to manage what comes into their plants.

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