EREMA Plastic Recycling Blog

According to Obaggo, only 1% of plastic bags and packaging film are recycled. This is a tragedy when it's quite possible and even easy to capture, transport and recycle plastic bags.

EREMA is excited to be featuring the EREMA CIRCONOMIC CENTRE at K Show 2019. K Show, opening October 16, 2019 in Düsseldorf is 'The World's Number One Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber'. At K Show 2019, the EREMA Group will be demonstrating the extensive capacity of the group companies to deliver fully integrated, advanced plastics recycling...

Many people are curious about the circular economy, and are eager to see circular economy examples. Now managers, engineers and technologists can see circular economy examples in action!

The innovative Xtreme Renew technology from SIPA in combination with EREMA’s VACUREMA® technology makes it possible: you can produce food contact compliant 100% rPET preforms directly from post-consumer PET flakes.

Plastic films and bags are a recycling challenge, but it is worth pointing out that with proper processes these materials don't have to be single-use. The plastic molecule that makes up the plastic bag or film is highly engineered and hence of value. We shouldn't look at the plastic bag or packaging film simply from the product point-of-view, but...

It was so exciting to be able to lead open and engaging discussions at the Advancing the Circular Economy event at the La Kretz Innovation Campus (LKIC) in downtown LA. It's always amazing to connect with fellow passionate circular economists!

As outlined in our last blog post, PET recycling is facing challenges technically and on the collection side. Erema constantly improves its systems to meet the technical challenges of PET Recycling. The new VACUNITE® bottle-to-bottle process is the first PET recycling system that meets today’s stricter quality criteria for recycled plastics in...

EREMA North America (ENA) sales growth reached almost 50%. A primary driver of North American growth is the growing PET recycling market due to EREMA’s leadership role in producing efficient PET recycling technology that can recover high quality PET across many applications. There are numerous challenges with recycling PET and EREMA has engineered...

The PET recycling market faces major challenges as some of the world’s leading brands plot new ambitious strategies to increase the use of recycled content in many of its beverage products. The leading beverage companies such as Coca-Cola Co. plan to incorporate up to 50% recycled content in its plastic containers by 2030. The verdict is still out...