Traders reporting on behalf of the Bureau of International Recycling say low-cost virgin plastic materials continue to gain ...

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.

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

As a pioneer of the circular economy for decades, Goodwill Industries, Ontario Great Lakes (OGL), headquartered in London, ...

For example, KW’s Saunders says that the US recycling rate for high-density polyethylene bottles—the kind used for milk and detergent jugs—is currently 28%.