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Equipment Spotlight: Compact plastics sorting system fits into plant retrofits
Major equipment installations come with logistical considerations, and for space-limited plastics sorting facilities, that makes things complicated. The Mistral Compact...
Responsible producers
This story originally appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content. ...
Data Sort: Export vs. domestic processing for post-consumer plastic
The graph below shows the downstream trends for four major plastic resins collected for recycling in the U.S. and Canada...
Data Sort: What accounts for the higher cost of PCR
Historically, companies have used post-consumer resin (PCR) because it was a lower cost feedstock than virgin. In recent years, however,...
On top of the trends
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content. ...
Rapid adoption
This article originally appeared in the August 2019 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. Over...
Big factors in size reduction
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content. ...
Reclaimer In Focus: EFS-Plastics
Mixed plastic bales have become increasingly difficult to move through the recycling system as overseas markets have diminished, leading some...
Here is away
This article originally appeared in the August 2019 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. The...
Equipment Spotlight: Shredder targets hard-to-process plastics
Herbold Meckesheim USA has released size-reduction equipment tailored for plastics recycling. The EWS 60/210 is a shredder that was designed...
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