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Plastics Recycling Show Europe to launch later this year

2015-09-10 by plasticpyrolysisplant

Europe’s first pan-European exhibition and conference solely dedicated to plastics recycling, the Plastics Recycling Show Europe, is set for Nov. 25 and 26 in Belgium.

The show, organized Plastics News Europe and PRW with Crain Communications Inc. will take place at the Tour & Taxis Venue in Brussels. PNE and PRW are sister publications of Plastics News and the three magazines are owned by Detroit-based Crain Communications.

Industry body Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) is strongly supporting the exhibition and is organizing the conference in conjunction with Plastics Recycling Show event organizers Crain Communications. The event is organized in association with Polymer Comply Europe and is also supported by EPRO, the European Association of Plastics Recycling & Recovery Organizations. Other industry bodies supporting the event include European Plastics Converters, Petcore Europe, Recovinyl, Plastics Europe, Federplast, FEBEM-FEGE and Vinyl Plus.

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Fuel from plastic waste: Kerala plans two plants

2016-08-192015-09-08 by plasticpyrolysisplant

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government has set in motion a project to treat plastic waste to manufacture a kerosene-like fuel. The Clean Kerala Company has started the process of setting up two plants in Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi with private participation. These plants would have a capacity to treat 10 tons of plastic waste per day. Plastic … Read more…

Waste management is a collective responsibility

2015-08-31 by plasticpyrolysisplant

Mr Peter Dery, Director in-charge of Climate Change Sustainability at the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, said waste management should be the responsibility of all and sundry to ensure clean environment. Mr Dery expressed concern about indiscriminate disposal of plastic wastes on the environment, adding that the situation has resulted in choked gutters, … Read more…

Others can learn from Princeton’s plastic bag recycling plan

2015-08-28 by plasticpyrolysisplant

What to do with those ever-present plastic bags shoppers tote home from supermarkets and grocery stores? More than 102 billion of them every year are taking up permanent residence in our nation’s landfills. Oh, they seem innocuous enough – one bag from the convenience store with the day’s milk, another from the corner market with … Read more…

Recycling for a better future

2015-08-26 by plasticpyrolysisplant

While recycling allows for reduction in landfill trash, reduces certain harmful emissions and allows the reuse of certain plastics and other items it also helps stimulate the economy and makes Missouri a better place for everyone. In my Capitol office we have two large recycling containers. One for paper and the other for plastic. And at home my family recycles as much as possible.

Recycling in Missouri, creates jobs, in fact there are as many as 25,000 job in collection and processing, within businesses supporting the recycling industry and manufacturing recycled products. Recycling also saves money by diverting material from disposal costs, sales of recovered materials, helps retain local employees in local businesses, and allows for local and state revenue. Overall, recycling helps by improving local regions and the state, while attracting businesses interested in processing and using materials.

UP based SME converts plastic to oil

2015-08-24 by plasticpyrolysisplant

Tonnes of plastic dumped every day has been a matter of great worry for the world including India. Left with no other solution, governments in many states have put a ban on the use of plastics. However, one entrepreneur from Muzzafarnagar in Uttar Pradesh has developed a way to turn plastic back into its original … Read more…

Clean Kerala to try pyrolysis for managing plastic waste

2015-08-21 by plasticpyrolysisplant

With monthly collection of plastic waste from local bodies hardly yielding obvious results due to the enormous quantity of plastic waste generated, the Clean Kerala Company has finalized a proposal to establish a plant that would produce pyrolysis oil from plastic waste. The pilot pyrolysis plant, which is most likely to come up in the … Read more…

Indian Railways To Run On Diesel That Used To Be Plastic

2015-08-19 by plasticpyrolysisplant

AsianScientist (Apr. 22, 2015) – Indian Railways, a rail network operator owned by the government of India, is soon to set up plants to manufacture diesel from plastic with technology patented by scientists at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Indian Institute of Petroleum (CSIR-IIP). Announced by Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Science and … Read more…

Ag plastic disposal poses challenge

2015-08-17 by plasticpyrolysisplant

Farmers use plastics in a variety of ways. One of the most visible is the storage of animal feed. While relatively inexpensive and providing management flexibility, the plastic is not reusable, making disposal challenging and costly. Efforts to recycle this waste material have produced mixed results. To better understand the situation and get an accurate … Read more…

Digging for details to spur future recycling growth

2015-08-14 by plasticpyrolysisplant

Some hands got messy on this one. But researchers behind a new study believe their sometimes dirty work can help spur on additional plastic recycling. Called the 2015 National Mixed Rigid Bale Composition Study, the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers commissioned Moore Recycling Associates, a consulting firm, to literally dig through and separate nearly two … Read more…