[caption id="attachment_18734" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Plastic Recycling, Inc. is the latest company to open North American capacity for e-plastics. | Courtesy of PRI[/caption]
Indianapolis-based Plastic Recycling, Inc.
[caption id="attachment_14677" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Scrap plastic traders are facing challenges from increased freight rates and cancellations of bookings by shipping lines as Basel regulations are implemented. | Mariusz Bugno/Shutterstock[/caption]
Recent changes t
[caption id="attachment_14554" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Logitech estimates it will have shipped more than 50 million devices that include recycled plastic by the end of 2021. | Marco Curaba/Shutterstock[/caption]
Logitech has used more post-consumer plastic in its keyboards, mice
[caption id="attachment_15010" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]With a capacity of 6,000 pounds per hour, URT's system was designed to handle the amount of shredded e-plastic generated in URT's Janesville, Wis.
[caption id="attachment_14523" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Because the U.S. is not a party to the Basel Convention, exports to the 180-plus countries that are parties to the convention will be more complicated, or may even be prohibited by local laws. | AnkaFed/Shutterstock[/caption]
The U.S.
[caption id="attachment_13916" align="aligncenter" width="900"]A view of the recently installed e-plastics sorting and washing line at eCycle Solutions. | Courtesy of eCycle Solutions[/caption]
A major North American e-scrap company has invested approximately $1.5 million into a plastics cleanup line, partly to get
[caption id="attachment_16935" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Shipping company MSC stopped accepting scrap cargo headed to China and Hong Kong as of June 1. | Fomin Roman/Shutterstock[/caption]
A major shipping line will no longer accept recovered plastic and other scrap material shipments bound for Hong Kong, wh
[caption id="attachment_13322" align="aligncenter" width="960"]RePolyTex is gearing up to operate its Madison, N.C. facility at full scale, manufacturing a "plastic plywood" product from shredded e-plastics. | Courtesy of RePolyTex.[/caption]
A U.S. plastics recycling and manufacturing facility is preparing to begin taking in plastics recovered from electronics.
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2019-2020 issue of E-Scrap News. Subscribe today for access to all print content.
[dropcap]For[/dropcap] many operators in the world of electronics recycling, plastics have recently become a major talking point.
Before 2017, the scrap plastics that
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Rolph Payet, executive secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, speaks at the Plastics Recycling Conference and Trade Show. | Plastics Recycling Confe
Plastic Recycling, Inc. is the latest company to open North American capacity for e-plastics. | Courtesy of PRI[/caption]
Indianapolis-based Plastic Recycling, Inc.
Scrap plastic traders are facing challenges from increased freight rates and cancellations of bookings by shipping lines as Basel regulations are implemented. | Mariusz Bugno/Shutterstock[/caption]
Recent changes t
Logitech estimates it will have shipped more than 50 million devices that include recycled plastic by the end of 2021. | Marco Curaba/Shutterstock[/caption]
Logitech has used more post-consumer plastic in its keyboards, mice
With a capacity of 6,000 pounds per hour, URT's system was designed to handle the amount of shredded e-plastic generated in URT's Janesville, Wis.
Because the U.S. is not a party to the Basel Convention, exports to the 180-plus countries that are parties to the convention will be more complicated, or may even be prohibited by local laws. | AnkaFed/Shutterstock[/caption]
The U.S.
A view of the recently installed e-plastics sorting and washing line at eCycle Solutions. | Courtesy of eCycle Solutions[/caption]
A major North American e-scrap company has invested approximately $1.5 million into a plastics cleanup line, partly to get
Shipping company MSC stopped accepting scrap cargo headed to China and Hong Kong as of June 1. | Fomin Roman/Shutterstock[/caption]
A major shipping line will no longer accept recovered plastic and other scrap material shipments bound for Hong Kong, wh
RePolyTex is gearing up to operate its Madison, N.C. facility at full scale, manufacturing a "plastic plywood" product from shredded e-plastics. | Courtesy of RePolyTex.[/caption]
A U.S. plastics recycling and manufacturing facility is preparing to begin taking in plastics recovered from electronics.
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2019-2020 issue of E-Scrap News. 
Rolph Payet, executive secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, speaks at the Plastics Recycling Conference and Trade Show. | Plastics Recycling Confe