EREMA Plastic Recycling Blog

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.

A new study titled “Cradle-To-Resin Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Resin.” has been released by The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR). Manufacturers can now calculate the impact of moving to Polyethylene Terephthalate Recycling with the resulting analysis and calculator.

In their article “Major Innovation Brings A New Level Of Sustainability To PET Bottle Recycling”, Forbes Magazine, makes the case for the circular economy, at least with respect to PET recycling, is here today.

If it melts, we can run it! But for today, let's focus on PET. EREMA is proud to support NAPCOR (Positively PET) in its efforts to educate consumers about PET plastic and encourage recycling, especially surrounding America Recycles Day 2020 on Sunday, 11/15.

The Center of Management Technology will host a webinar on High-Quality Recycled Plastics on November 17th, 2020. Attending as a speaker for EREMA is Christoph Wöss, Business Development Manager Application Bottle, speaking about Advanced Bottle to Bottle Recycling technology for the Circular Economy era.

We can lower our carbon footprint, and affordably remove plastics waste from the environment if we all come together and follow circular economy principles.

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