Affected by regulatory policy uncertainty, logistics costs, and tight supply, buyer behavior in different resin categories in the U.S. recycled plastics market has changed, leading to divergent price trends. ICIS analysis indicates that some niche ma

The new compact baler network fills a critical gap in the flexible plastic recycling sector, making waste collection economically viable for small and medium-sized commercial waste generators nationwide. The Alliance to End Plastic Waste has partnere

Braskem and Lallemand have launched a biobased acetone production platform for the corn ethanol industry, providing a direct substitute for fossil-based acetone used in the plastics sector. After five years of collaboration, the two parties developed

The project collects end-of-life and waste tires across Germany, sourcing them from Driver retail stores, various motorsport events, and the Pirelli Breuberg plant as raw materials for the integrated recycling process. Pyrum uses a pyrolysis process

The UK-India Free Trade Agreement (UK-India FTA) has now entered into force, but the UK’s countervailing duties on imports of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) products from India remain unchanged. On July 17, the UK government announced that t

PureCycle Technologies, a plastics recycling specialist based in Orlando, Florida, announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with RM TOHCELLO, one of the world’s largest producers of biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film, as well as

This week, the operating rate of the recycled ABS industry was 38.9%, down 2.7 percentage points from the previous week, as shortages of feedstock from dismantled waste household appliances combined with concentrated maintenance weighed on overall ou

This week, the overall operating rate of recycled PVC was 33.6%, up slightly by 1.2 percentage points week-on-week. In the previous period, more than 60% of the small and medium-sized recycled PVC granulation plants in Hebei and Henan, North China, w

This week, the overall operating rate of domestic recycled PE was 45.2%, down 1.8 percentage points week-on-week. The off-season for agricultural film dragged down the operating rate of the recycled LDPE segment to just 40.8%. Tianjin’s 100,000-ton/y

Today, the domestic recycled PET market was generally stable but slightly weak, with transactions mainly consisting of sporadic rigid-demand orders and limited market fluctuations. In terms of prices (ex-factory, excluding tax), East China pure whit