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Indorama Ventures has been working for six years on a PET tray recycling project at its Verdun plant in Wellman France Recycling, with support from VALORPLAST and CITEO. The project aims to recycle single- and multi-layer PET trays.

VALORPLAST claims to have collected significant quantities of post-consumer PET trays and Wellman has conducted a number of industrial experiments. The companies add that the flakes produced by the process are being tested by several players to develop high-quality applications.

Hoffmann Neopac, a global provider of high-quality packaging for a broad array of industries and applications, has introduced the market’s first fully recyclable polyethylene-based tubes with high-density polyethylene (HDPE) flip-top caps. A breakthrough in the worldwide push for packaging sustainability, the mono-material tube + cap combination overcomes a longstanding functionality hurdle for hinged caps, which were previously made predominantly from less recyclable polypropylene (PP) materials.