In the current process for recycling these high-density polyethylene, or HDPE, plastics, much of the material's properties are lost, so recycling can be repeated only two or three times.

First, the mixed recyclables are shredded and crushed into smaller fragments, enabling more effective separation. The mixed fragments pass over rotating screens that remove cardboard and paper, ...

The barrier solution meets critical guidance requirements and is in accordance with existing recycling streams for plastic packaging.

These include those in plastic soda bottles, polyethylene terephthalate or PET, and the plastic found in milk jugs and detergent containers, high-density polyethylene or HDPE (see figure below).

TORONTO (Oct. 10, 9:30 a.m. ET) — For the second straight year, post-consumer high density polyethylene recycling has remained stagnant. The North American recycling rate for HDPE remained at 29 ...

In the U.S., about 26-27 million tons of plastic were sent to landfills in 2018 and 2019, according to the EPA.

Austria-based Alpla Group says it is in the process of building a plant in Toluca, Mexico, for recycling HDPE (high-density polyethylene) plastic. As designed, the plant will be able to produce 15,000 ...

A plastics reprocessor based in the Southeast says the market for recycled natural high-density polyethylene (HDPE) has “changed dramatically in the last five to six months.” He attributes this to ...