1 | Current export markets: The good and the ugly
Several trends are negatively affecting North American export markets for recovered materials, including what appears to be the return of China's Green Fence customs initiative.
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2 | Plastics Recycling 2016: Technically the best
Is your company taking bales of PET and turning it into a new product? Are you sorting out colored from natural HDPE? How are you managing engineered scrap plastics containing flame retardants?
Those and other technical concerns will be front and center at the Plastics Recycling Conference, which will be offering a three-session track to address the specific issues confronting operations all along the plastics recovery value chain. Wade into the weeds on technology and technical issues facing plastics recycling operations today and into the future.
In addition to the technical track, the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers will hold one of its two annual Technical Forum gatherings on Monday, Feb. 1. It's free for all attendees of Plastics Recycling 2016.
Plastics Recycling 2016 is taking place Feb. 1-3 at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, Louisiana. Head to plasticsrecycling.com for all the information on attending, exhibiting and sponsoring.
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3 | APR makes rigid plastics pitch to grocery industry
Grocery store chains could generate significant income by baling and selling their rigid plastic containers, according to a video aimed at grocery leaders.
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4 | Sign up for Plastics Recycling Update: Technology Edition
A monthly newsletter on the biggest plastics recycling technology news is set to debut Aug. 31.
From the publishers of Plastics Recycling Update, Plastics Recycling Update: Technology Edition will offer readers an exclusive look at processing strides, new equipment and the latest research and innovations in the expanding plastics recycling field.
In the first edition of the newsletter, readers will get an inside look at the equipment in Repreve's $25 million facility expansion, letters of no objection from the FDA and a never-before-seen project aimed at recovering laminated films.
To receive the free monthly newsletter, sign up here.
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5 | Communities in action
A Portland, Ore.-based company has started to accept expanded polystyrene at two drop-off locations, and West Virginia's capital city is making the unconventional move to replace recycling bins with plastic bags.
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6 | PetroChem Wire: Scrap plastics exports rise in first half of 2015
For the first six months of 2015, U.S. scrap plastic exports were up 2.5 percent from the first half of 2014 – at 1,090,799 metric tons, compared with 1,063,613 metric tons during the first half of 2014.
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7 | Wide world of plastics reycling
Two Australian fishermen get up close and personal with plastic marine debris, and the U.K. plastics recycling sector sees some major injections of capital.
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8 | NewsBits
A new machine dispenses food for stray animals with each plastic beverage container deposited, and a successful program recycling hospitals' "blue wrap" is featured.
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9 | Upcoming conferences and webinars
Click here for a complete directory of upcoming conferences and webinars.
If you have a conference or webinar that you would like listed, please send an email to [email protected] for consideration.
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10 | Jobs available and sought
Plant Manager, QRS (Baltimore, Md.).
Details are available here.
Various Positions, PRP Recycling (Chicago, Ill.).
Details are available here.
Jobs Sought
Database of job seekers available here.
If you would like to submit a job available or job sought listing, contact Scott Beck at [email protected].
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