Hygiene and health company Essity joined the digital watermarks initiative HolyGrail 2.0 project , which aims to improve sorting to boost plastic packaging recycling rates in Europe.

Investment firm Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors and U.K. tech company Clean Planet Energy announced a plan to build multiple chemical recycling facilities in the U.S., beginning with a Gibbstown, N.J. plant with a capacity of 40 million pounds per year.

Market analysis firm ICIS launched a weekly pricing service tracking mixed-plastic bale prices in Europe.

Styrenics producer INEOS Styrolution announced the company will invest in a pilot plant for polystyrene chemical recycling in Swindon, U.K.

Unifi announced it has recycled 30 billion post-consumer plastic bottles into fiber products, a milestone the company had pledged to meet by 2022.

A group of brand owners that includes McDonald’s, Kimberly-Clark and others increased their use of recycled plastic over the past couple of years, but they’re still not on pace to hit their goals, according to a report.

A food-safety panel approved 17 applications to use Starlinger, SML and Protec technologies to recycle post-consumer PET into food and drink packaging. It rejected two other requests.

A home appliance industry leader explains why his group would like to see extended producer responsibility proposals fall by the wayside in favor of the approach in the upcoming California single-use plastics ballot measure.

A scrap plastic feedstock company is planning a Gulf Coast facility capable of preparing 132 million pounds of material annually for chemical recycling.

ByFusion, an equipment supplier based in Los Angeles, is selling a modular system that processes low-grade mixed plastics into construction products.

A film recycling company that recently opened its first facility in California aims to launch two additional plants in the U.S. next year, with more on the way in the future.

HDPE bale prices have continued to collapse from their record highs, with natural HDPE down 26% and color HDPE down 33% this month.

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