The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, has launched its Polypropylene Recycling Coalition, an industry collaboration to improve polypropylene (PP) recovery and recycling in the United ...
Polypropylene (PP) is an important packaging material that is sometimes overlooked and undervalued in the United States’ residential recycling stream. But that trend is rapidly changing, as the value ...
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Recycling Partnership’s Polypropylene Recycling Coalition is celebrating the How2Recycle upgrade of polypropylene (PP) rigid containers to ...
Polypropylene is one of the most widely used plastics in packaging. But difficulties with recycling are potentially putting its acceptance at risk. At least that's the view of one of the leaders of ...
National Harbor, Md. — Polypropylene is just as big in packaging as PET but it is recycled at a fraction of PET. Only 8 percent of 1.2 million tons of post-consumer PP is recycled. But getting this ...
HOUSTON, Oct. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc., an affiliate of broad energy company TotalEnergies (NYSE: TTE), today announces its participation as a funding ...
This story was originally published on Waste Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Waste Dive newsletter. About 48 million more people have access to PP recycling ...
A WRAP-commissioned research project into reprocessing polypropylene plastics into food grade packaging has identified a number of “hurdles” that mean further work is needed to ensure it can become a ...
Soon, however, it may be possible to recover high-grade polypropylene from synthetic carpets that would otherwise just end up in the dump. The new recycling process is being developed by scientists at ...