EREMA Plastic Recycling Blog

Here is a positive example for the circular economy in action. Post Consumer Plastic Household Cleaner Bottles are a great application for using recyclates.

Beautiful looking consumer goods with a long life span and high quality can be made from 100% recycled single use plastic materials. Case in point the fabric of the travel backpack from 8-Hz is made from about 23 PET water bottles.

Over the last 20 years, the production of plastics has increased dramatically. Plastic waste is a resource and with proper processing plastic packaging and plastic components can be returned into valuable products. Plastic should never end up in the ocean, in the landfill or in the incinerator – it is simply too valuable of a material resource....

Bioplastics Recycling Growing environmental concerns have given a boost to the use of bioplastics in the world of packaging. While bioplastics certainly have their place in the market place, they have also created challenges in the recycling stream of traditional plastics. In order to recycle bioplastics, they must be sorted and processed...

Of the estimated 6 Billion pounds of trash bags made every year in the USA, most contain only a small amount of post-consumer resins (PCR). At the same time we have billions of pounds of used shopping bags available, which for the most part are not accepted by curbside recycling programs in the USA.

Six companies are pledging to use 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging by 2025 at the latest.

BEVERAGE BOTTLES The vast majority of beverage bottles are made from PET (Polyethylene terephthalate), it makes up about 18% of polymers produced globally. That bottle can be turned without loss of properties into a perfect functioning, aesthetically pleasing and food contact approved post-consumer plastic beverage bottles again!

You can learn more about high value products using PCE content by watching Philip's video on their new Performer vacuum line.

What's in your meal kit box besides the food ingredients? Lots of plastic - and how do the recyclability claims hold up promoted by meal kit companies?