Plastic film wrap that is, because it can be recycled with plastic grocery store bags. ... At the MRF, machines and people separate the glass from the plastic, for example.

Designer Xuanhao Li merges computational design, digital fabrication and traditional craftsmanship to upcycle discarded ...

Valmatic has unveiled Mi.Ri. Flex, a semi-automatic machine designed for vertical filling, sealing, and die-cutting of ...

Nigeria government has launched an advanced cutting-edge plastic polyethylene manufacturing technology upgrade machine as part of its move to embrace circular economy practices that promote reuse ...

No practical technology exists to recycle plastic film. If we toss it out with bottles, ... The crux is that mass-manufacturing machines can be tweaked quickly to make TIPA films.

Ridwell co-founder and CEO Ryan Metzger shows off bags full of plastic film in the startup’s warehouse in Seattle’s SoDo area. ... Bags of plastic are compressed in a bailing machine at Ridwell.

You’re right to worry. Every year, dry cleaners use more than 300 million pounds of this plastic film in the U.S. alone. (They are sometimes known as poly bags because they are made from a kind ...

In 2019, lawmakers passed a bill to phase out plastic film grocery bags but allowed stores and restaurants to provide thicker “reusable” plastic bags. Senate Bill 551 would ban those heavier bags.