Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India’s largest private sector company, is doubling its PET recycling capacity by setting up a recycled polyester staple fibre (PSF) manufacturing facility in Andhra Pradesh. As a part of this endeavor, Srichakra Ecotex India Pvt Ltd, India’s leading plastic recycling and waste management company, will exclusivelyContinue Reading
Toy giant Lego is aiming to put bricks made from recycled drinks bottles on shelves within two years. Lego makes about 3,500 different bricks and shapes, but faces the challenge of coming up with a sustainable product that can last years – decades, even. They want to ensure their thatContinue Reading
Microplastics are extremely pervasive throughout nature and have previously been found in the deepest points of our planet’s oceans, and even in most seafood. Now, according to a new research bits of microplastics are showing up inside human tissues. A team from Arizona State University found nanoplastic particles in allContinue Reading
The US Department of Energy earmarked $11.6 million for a new high-impact R&D effort called the Center for Plastics Innovation (CPI). They will develop new transformative plastic recycling technology, which would be a giant step up from good old fashioned shredding and melting. The new Innovation Center will be basedContinue Reading
Carbios has created a mutant bacterial enzyme that breaks down plastic bottles for recycling in hours. This was originally discovered in a compost heap of leaves, reduced the bottles to chemical building blocks that were then used to make high-quality new bottles. Existing recycling technologies usually produce plastic only goodContinue Reading
Use of recycled fibers and fabrics and green initiatives are now being discussed to a great extent among garment exporters in Tiruppur, as overseas brands talk about sustainable product ranges. Sulochana Cotton Spinning Mills in Tiruppur got into PET bottle recycling almost a decade ago. Used and thrown away PETContinue Reading
Sweeping restrictions on single use plastic bottles could have a far reaching impact on the way companies sell water and other beverages. Under pressure from an upcoming likely ban on single use plastic, Coca-Cola India, PepsiCo and Bisleri on Thursday announced the setting up of a packaging waste management entity,Continue Reading
Global sportswear giant Adidas aims at eliminating the use of virgin plastics in its products by 2024 — with a little help from a Maharashtra-based firm — the only one of its kind in the country to produce yarn out of discarded PET bottles. The firm’s technology allows for breakingContinue Reading
