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 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.

According to a recent analysis of single-use bag legislation, while policy can be one of the most effective tools to reduce ...

However, Greenpeace’s PET and HDPE bottle recycling rates differ significantly from those reported in the 2020 U.S. Post-consumer Plastic Recycling Data Report, which calculates the PET bottle ...

Plastics recycler Envision Plastics is increasing production capacity of the company's EcoPrime brand of food-grade high density polyethylene by 50 percent through a multimillion-dollar expansion.

Recycling HDPE makes a dark plastic only good for making things like park benches and waste bins. Only plastics with 1 (polyethylene terephthalate) or 2 (high-density polyethylene) are widely ...

No. 2 plastics are made of high-density polyethylene, abbreviated HDPE. Another common plastic, No. 2 is usually opaque or colored. Common No. 2 items include milk jugs, detergent bottles and ...

A two-stage process that combines the power of chemistry and biology can convert mixtures of common waste plastics into single products, potentially overcoming a major obstacle in recycling ...