Indorama Ventures (IVL), a global producer of sustainable chemicals, and AMB Spa have announced a new partnership that will see the two companies aim to divert more than 150 million post-consumer PET trays from landfill or incineration by the end of 2025, through recycling into film for food packaging trays.

Plastics are widely used for various purposes, and imported plastics and plastic products are diverse. Compared with previous years, the 2023 edition of the "Catalogue of Standardized Declaration of Import and Export Commodities of the Customs of the People's Republic of China" has some new changes in the standardized declaration requirements for plastics and their products, which companies should pay attention to when filling out the declaration.

Berry is one of the leading companies in the UK plastic recycling industry, with business throughout Europe and a number of world-leading recycling technologies. CleanStream™ is Berry's patented technology, the world's first closed-loop recycling technology that can process polypropylene (PP) waste into food-grade packaging. It has currently obtained a no-objection letter from the FDA, confirming that the r-PP produced by CleanStream™ technology can be as high as 100% recycled food packaging application level.

Amcor Rigid Packaging (ARP) and Ron Rubin Winery have collaborated to develop a 100% recycled polyethylene terephthalate (r-PET) wine bottle with a screw cap that features a high-barrier coating of silicon oxide (SiOx).

SABIC, along with BASF, Covestro, Dow Chemical, LyondellBasell, Mitsubishi Chemical and Solvay, has signed an agreement with the renowned Dutch innovation organization TNO, which will host the new plastic recycling R&D center and execute R&D projects, with the first projects to start in the second half of 2023.

On July 13, 2023, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation on End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV). In line with the European Green Deal and the Circular Economy Action Plan, the ELV proposal is based on and will replace two existing directives: Directive 2000/53/EC and 2005/64/EC on end-of-life vehicles. The European Parliament and the Council will consider the proposal in the ordinary legislative procedure.

According to Fact.MR, as consumer preference for sustainable and recyclable products continues to grow, the global recycled PET market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 8% to a total of US$4.2 billion by the end of 2031. Recently, global food and beverage giants such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have accelerated the application of r-PET and continued to expand their global market layout of 100% r-PET bottles.

ALPLA is continuing its global expansion into the circular economy with the expansion of its recycling plant in Poland. The internationally active packaging and recycling specialist is investing around EUR 8 million in a third extrusion line. Annual production capacity will increase from 30,000 to 54,000 tonnes of food-grade PET recycled material (r-PET). This makes Radomsko, Poland, one of the largest recycling plants of its kind in Europe.