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1. Aptar Announces The World’s First Packaging For Cosmetics Using Certified Recycled Plastic 3/12/2020

   Aptar Beauty + Home, a global leader in packaging and dispensing systems for the cosmetics industry, continues to focus its efforts on sustainable product development.

2. APLIX Announces New Inter-Mold Hooks For Medical And Orthopedic Applications 3/10/2020

   APLIX today announced the commercialization of new inter-mold low profile hooks for medical and orthopedic applications.

3. Borealis Producing Certified Renewable Polypropylene At Own Facilities In Belgium 3/10/2020

   Borealis has started to produce polypropylene (PP) based on Neste-produced renewable feedstock in its production facilities in Kallo and Beringen, Belgium. This marks the first time that Borealis has replaced fossil fuel-based feedstock in its large-scale commercial production of PP

4. Hoffer Plastics Announces New Status As MedAccred Certified Injection Molder 3/9/2020

   Hoffer Plastics announced today that the company has received the MedAccred certification, a medical device industry-managed supply-chain oversight program of the Performance Review Institute.

5. Neste And Mirova Back Recycling Technologies To Accelerate Transition To Circular Economy For Plastic 3/9/2020

   Neste, the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, renewable jet fuel, and an expert in delivering drop-in renewable chemical solutions, and Mirova, a pioneer impact investor in the natural capital space and an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, today announce a combined EUR 10 million investment into Recycling Technologies Ltd (‘Recycling Technologies’), a specialist plastic recycling technology provider

6. ‘Deceptively Simple’ Process Could Boost Plastics Recycling 3/9/2020

   Plastics are a victim of their own success, so inexpensive, easy to use and versatile that the world is awash in plastic waste.

7. LyondellBasell And Bora Sign Definitive Agreements To Form Chinese Joint Venture 3/5/2020

   LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB), one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world, today announced it has signed definitive agreements to expand in China through a 50:50 joint venture with the Liaoning Bora Enterprise Group (Bora)

8. BASF’s Plastic Additives Help To Improve The Durability Of Highways In India 3/3/2020

   BASF’s light stabilizers from the Chimassorb range have been used by M/s Megaplast India Pvt Ltd (Megaplast), a leading polyethylene products manufacturer in India, to produce nonwoven geotextile used in the construction of national highways.

9. Bubble Tech Blows Microplastic Problem Out Of The Water 2/27/2020

   An innovative Australian technology that uses bubbles to remove contaminants from water offers a solution to an emerging global pollution crisis – microplastics.

10. Circular Economy For Plastic: TC Transcontinental Creates A Recycling Group Within TC Transcontinental Packaging 2/27/2020

    TC Transcontinental (TSX: TCL.A TCL.B) announces the creation of a Recycling Group within TC Transcontinental Packaging. In 2020, this group will start purchasing equipment for converting flexible plastics recovered from sorting facilities and other commercial, industrial and agricultural sources into recycled plastic granules.