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Equipment Spotlight: Picking out PET packaging types
If PET is PET is PET to a standard optical sorter, Tomra's new Sharp Eye technology isn't standard. The company...
Data Sort: Impacts of boosting PCR in trash bags
The largest environmental benefit from plastics recycling comes when post-consumer resin (PCR) is incorporated into a new product, displacing virgin...
In my opinion: Time to force the issue
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A lot to digest
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Steps to resiliency
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Reclaimer in Focus: Champion Polymer Recycling
Water management is a solid end market for recycled plastics. Among the largest buyers of recovered plastic in the country,...
Equipment Spotlight: PET filter creates input flexibility
For more than two decades, Erema's Laserfilter has been used to remove contaminants from polyolefin melt streams. A year ago,...
Equipment Spotlight: Targeting flake impurities with rotational wash
Flake-washing equipment from Italian equipment company Amut removes contaminants from flake via centrifugal force. The company's line of Turbo Washers...
Commercialization conundrum
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Equipment Spotlight: Laser detection cleans up the stream
A new Tomra system adds laser technology to the sort line, increasing product purity without slowing throughput. The company’s laser...
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