EREMA Plastic Recycling Blog

A behind the scenes look at the Laurence Fishburne TV Series team creating documentary footage @ EREMA! Behind The Scenes with Host Laurence Fishburne is an award-winning educational television series highlighting the evolution of education, medicine, science, technology and industry through inspiring stories. The show being filmed now will be...

The Ocean Cleanup project is a non-profit organization with the goal of eliminating 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 5 years and 90% of ocean borne plastic by 2040. These estimates are based upon engineering models of the major ocean gyres combined with reasonable efforts at source reduction. 

Envases Universales Group provides a complete PET plastic container packaging solution for consumer products, from package design & R&D to PET package products, both standard containers and customized packaging and process optimization services for end customers.

Polykar, a family-owned business founded in 1987, has become an innovative North American leader in sustainable flexible plastic packaging through their journey spanning over 30 years. The Canadian based manufacturer has always taken responsibility to protect the environment and prevent any pollution associated with its operations.

EREMA is again being recognized for delivering innovative recycling technology.  “The Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2020 have attracted a record number of entries. The influx of projects, principally, in the Product Technology, from across the whole value chain including brand owners, raw material producers, machine and equipment producers is a...

As a plastics recycling professional, it's possible that you've heard of OEE, or Overall Equipment Effectiveness. For those that have, it's an often misunderstood measure of equipment performance. If you haven't heard this term before and are operating a plastics recycling plant or are considering investing in plastics recycling machinery, it's a...

The EREMA North America service center is FULLY OPEN to support EREMA installations! EREMA customer center is unique in North America, able to process the widest range of materials.

What does the London Tube have to do with food grade recycled plastic? UK company Veolia UK's Dagenham Plastics Facility receives post-consumer PET and HDPE plastic bottles from the Greater London Authority (GLA). Post-consumer (used) plastic containers are gathered from having been deposited into an expanded network of recycling containers by...

Many food packaging containers are manufactured using ‘thermoplastics’. As the name implies, thermoplastics become soft, or formable (plastic) under higher temperatures. Many types of food packaging, including beverage bottles, salad ingredients containers and lots of other food grade packaging are made from thermoplastics.

The FDA regulates recycled plastics for food-contact applications. They  manage how companies in the recycled plastics and related plastic recycling technology industries  can ensure that recycled plastics destined for food packaging are safe for use in the US.