EREMA Plastic Recycling Blog

Consumers increasingly expect the consumer products brands that they use to expand their use of recycled materials, including plastics. The truth is that some plastics are easier to recycle than others, and some consumer products, particularly some forms of packaging that carry products that we eat or use on our bodies, have stringent quality...

EREMA's technology is increasingly in demand around the world. The company is expanding facilities and hiring in both Europe and North America.

We got to talking about this topic with a passionate advocate for DOG  food bag recycling, Kurt Duska of Kurt Duska Consulting.

An Example of the Recycled Stretch Wrap Film Packaging Product Manufactured by Polykar for L’Oréal Canada   Polykar is the North American leader in sustainable flexible packaging Les Emballages Carrousel, Inc. is the largest distributor of packaging products in Quebec L’Oréal is the largest cosmetics brand in the world   These three industry...

It’s widely said that dogs are man’s best friends. Many of us keep pets such as dogs, and if you do, particularly if you keep a large dog, you know how much packaging is used in pet food bags.

EREMA Technology Enables the First Cosmetic Packaging Made of 100 Percent Recycled Materials.  Systec Plastics Eisfeld uses the EREMA INTAREMA TVEplus RegrindPro and the ReFresher module to produce Systalen, the brand name for their high-quality recyclates. The raw materials for the process is post-consumer packaging material collected from...

  In late November of 2020 RCS Group, which was already producing rPET flakes for non-food products expanded their plastics recycling division to include the production of food-grade rPET recyclates that will be used in beverage rPET packaging, rPET food packaging films, and rPET food blister packs.

In the recent article in Kunststoffe International, titled Food Safe Post Consumer Recyclate, Christoph Woss, business Development Manager, Application Bottle and Clemens Kitzberger, Business Development Manager, Application Post Consumer of EREMA provide insights on current technologies for managing post-consumer recycling.

In March of 2019, China shocked the world by announcing its new policy, National Sword, which ceased the importation of plastics for recycling. Executives across the consumer products recycling industry supply chain spectrum were shocked, with “Sunil Bagaria, who runs recycling company GDB International, saying. "Forever, we have depended on...

EREMA North America (ENA), based in Ipswich, MA, US, has been distributing recycling machines and providing on-site service, spare parts components, and on-site technical support since 1992.