After a brief bump in recycled PET resin prices in late 2024 due to increased demand driven by hurricane disruptions to municipal water systems, pricing settled into traditional seasonal levels.

Tarragona’s beaches are covered with plastic pellets, highlighting a Europe-wide problem that is the focus of EU interinstitutional talks.

The BB-sized pellets made at Quality Circular Polymers (QCP) could hold the key to changing how the world thinks about plastics. Made of polymers repurposed from plastic waste, the pellets ...

A big attempt by the plastics industry to offer its own recycling and pollution legislation in Congress as an alternative to the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act continues to be a slow climb.

The processing plant crushes, washes, and dehydrates the waste, leaving nothing but small plastic flakes. The flakes are heated, dried, and cooled, then cut into small resin pellets. Normally ...

Pellet loss prevention is essential for reducing microplastics in the environment. Plastics Europe supports a mandatory risk management approach tailored to diverse pellet handling operations ...

The water content in plastics, also known as moisture content ... the water content determination of polycarbonate pellets was determined using the 885 Compact Oven Sample Changer and 899 Coulometer.

Convergen Energy, based in Green Bay, makes the pellets from hard-to-recycle materials discarded by area factories: laminated paper, adhesive labels, paper mill sludge, PET and HDPE plastics ...

The plastics that are mixed into the pellets include nylon, polyethylene and polyester. Burning the pellets allows plants that were using coal or natural gas to achieve lower carbon dioxide ...