Mitsubishi described the acquisition as part of its plan to implement a variety of sustainability initiatives by 2030. | IgorGolovniov/Shutterstock[/caption]
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation has purchased two European plastics recycling companies focusing on engineered plastics, bri
Holli Alexander of Eastman Chemical said collection unknowns are part of the current chemical recycling landscape. | Plastics Recycling Conference / Brian Adams Photography[/caption]
Last year, e-scrap processor RecycleForce announced it would send e-plastics to Brightmark Energy for conversion into fuel, oil and wax
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A processing line now operational in the U.K. recycles plastics from refrigerators by modifying the density of water and leveraging electrostatic separation.
The sorting line was provided by equipment companies Advanced Design of Recycling Machines (AD REM) of Belgium and Hamos of Germany.
Printed circuit boards are made of roughly 30% metal and 70% nonmetals. | Sebastian_Photography/Shutterstock[/caption]
Scientists who set their sights on potentially hazardous chemicals in scrap electronics say they can effectively break down the flame retardants i
In April, the Chinese government will enact new requirements for pellet imports. | Piyathep/Shutterstock[/caption]
Officials in Beijing are set to enact new requirements around the purity of recycled plastic pellets imported into China, which could disrupt international markets f
The development of a new domestic e-plastics outlet comes at a time of market turbulence for the low-value materials. | KPixMining/Shutterstock[/caption]
An Indiana plastics processing operation will consume roughly 40 million pounds of plastic from e-scrap and other produ
U.S. e-scrap processors and brokers say they're currently able to move e-plastics. | Alexey Lesik/Shutterstock[/caption]
Asia remains the destination for many plastics recovered from electronics.
E-plastics have been heavily impacted by market shifts in the past two years. | myibean/Shutterstock[/caption]
A European effort is calling on consumers to push manufacturers into using recycled plastic in new electronics as a way to build end markets for the challenging mater
MBA Polymers plans to start processing e-scrap devices at the new facility in 2020. | PIYAWAT WONGOPASS/Shutterstock[/caption]
Global plastics recycling company MBA Polymers will open a facility in Germany to recover e-plastics from electronics and appliances.
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India was the second largest importer of U.S. scrap plastic during the first six months of 2019. | Avigator Fortuner/Shutterstock[/caption]
Recovered plastic, including material from end-of-life electronics, has largely stopped flowing from the U.S.