Advanced Recycling Content: What You Should Know: Page 3

Advanced recycling, also known as chemical recycling, is making a name for itself within the recycling space. Check out our curated list of content on this topic so you can learn how this method produces materials that are indistinguishable from virgin plastics. You’ll also read how used plastics are recaptured and remanufactured into new plastics and products -- all through advanced recycling.
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Mars Petcare Retort Pouches use Certified Circular PP
For its Sheba brand wet cat food pouch, Mars Petcare uses polypropylene produced through advanced recycling; the film is both food-safe and retortable.
April 4, 2022
One of the latest brands to embrace advanced recycling is Mars Petcare, which is launching a new pouch for its Sheba wet cat food that incorporates, on average, 30% recycled polypropylene from advanced recycling technology.
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Cosmetics Brands to Benefit from Molecularly Recycled Material
January 7, 2022
Eastman’s molecular recycling technologies break down hard-to-recycle plastic waste into building blocks used to create new materials that are comparable to traditional materials in clarity, luster, and mechanical properties.
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Advanced Recycling Yields Virgin-Quality Recycled Plastic; P&G on Board
Advanced recycling, a complementary new technology to mechanical recycling, uses otherwise hard-to-recycle materials to create virgin-quality plastic. Big brands like P&G are early adopters.
December 17, 2021
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P&G and Herbal Essences' PET Bottles Move to 50% Chemically Recycled PCR
Herbal Essences will be the first P&G brand to use Eastman Renew molecular-recycled plastic in its packaging.
December 7, 2021
Herbal Essences will be the first P&G brand to use Eastman Renew molecular-recycled plastic in its packaging.
Sustainable Packaging
L’Oréal Pioneers Bottle Made from Industrial Emissions
The prototype HDPE package is the result of a partnership with LanzaTech and TotalEnergies that converts carbon waste from emissions from a steel mill into recycled polyethylene with the same properties as virgin plastic.
November 17, 2021
L’Oréal has produced a prototype cosmetics bottle that is made from a drop-in polyethylene created from the recycling of carbon emissions.
Sustainability
RTD Coffee Package Uses 30% Chemically Recycled PP
International dairy products company Emmi transitions to packaging with 30% rPP from chemical recycling for its Caffè Latte line of RTD iced coffee drinks in the U.K., becoming the first in the category to do so.
November 1, 2021
Beginning in September 2021, Emmi began offering its Caffè Latte RTD iced-coffee line in the U.K. in packaging made with 30% chemically recycled PP.
Sustainable Packaging
Alternative for hard-to-recycle packaging waste
Carlos Ludlow Palafox, CEO of Enval Ltd. and the creator of a unique technology based on microwave-induced pyrolysis for flexible packaging including plastic laminates, shares his vision.
October 15, 2021
Carlos Ludlow Palafox, inventor of microwave-induced pyrolysis for recycling flexible packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Global Brands Pilot Bottles Made Using ‘Transformational’ Recycling Technology
L’Oréal, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo, and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe pilot the world’s first food-grade PET plastic bottles produced entirely from enzymatically recycled plastic.
June 30, 2021
Each consortium company has successfully manufactured sample bottles, based on Carbios’ enzymatic PET recycling technology, for some of their leading products.
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Sustainable Cosmetics Packaging
South Korea’s Clio Cosmetics has launched its new Prism Highlighter Duo in injection-molded packaging made from a copolyester with 30% certified recycled content.
March 11, 2021
This injection-molded packaging for cosmetics products is made from a copolyester with 30% certified recycled content.
Sustainable Packaging
Magnum Tub is First to Use Certified Circular Plastic
The indulgent ice cream brand pioneers the use of recycled plastic, with the material sourced from mixed plastic waste converted to plastic resin feedstock through advanced recycling.
January 14, 2021
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Sustainable Packaging
PureCycle Technology Continues to Advance
John Layman, PhD and Section Head Corporate R&D Materials Science at Procter & Gamble, talks about an exciting new method of recycling polypropylene.
December 4, 2019
John Layman, PhD and Section Head Corporate R&D Materials Science at Procter & Gamble.
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