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Dow launches new grades with up to 100% recycled content

The new Revoloop recycled grades for shrink film applications will be
introduced at PRSE
verters and recyclers to design new
ways to use less plastic in packaging
and to help that what is used is fully
recyclable,” said Fabrice Digonnet,
plastics mechanical recycling strat-
egy leader EMEA, Dow Packaging
& Specialty Plastics. “Our Revoloop
launch is an exciting evolution in
our recycling story and enables us
to achieve new circularity and low-
carbon targets,” he added.
Both grades are approved for non-
food contact packaging applications.
Dow has partnered with Germany-
based shrink film manufacturer RKW
Group to develop collation shrink
films made with the recycled poly-
mers.

“By integrating Revoloop 100% PCR
and Revoloop containing recycled
plastics household waste with virgin
materials, we create a flexible packag-
Dow has added two new 100% and 85% post-consumer recy- ing solution that meets the require-
grades to its Revoloop port- cled derived from household waste. ments for mechanical recyclability,
folio of recycled resins. Up until now, Dow’s Revoloop portfo- ensuring compatibility with existing
The US-based chemicals lio included grades with a maximum recycling processes and contributing
company is launching the new LDPE of 70% recycled content. to the transition towards a circular
grades at the Plastics Recycling Show “With the launch of our new grades of economy,” said Konrad Noniewicz,
Europe (PRSE), happening next week Revoloop recycled plastics resins, we director R&D & application engineer-
in Amsterdam. continue to expand our sustainability ing at RKW Group.
For the first time, the grades include portfolio, working with brands, con- Source :- Sustainable plastics

New ghost gear recycling partnership in the Nordic countries

host gear pollution is a huge that injure and kill marine life. gear into new products. The plant has
problem and a major contribu- An estimated 640,000 tonnes of ghost an annual capacity of 6,000 tones of
tor to the ocean plastics crisis gear enters the ocean every year, and polypropylene (PP) and high-density
in every major body of water now constitutes some 10% of the plas- polyethylene (HDPE), saving almost
in the world. Ghost gear, which in- tic waste in the oceans. 10,000 tones of CO2 emissions per
cludes the tangles of discarded or lost year. Healix’s branded line of recycled
ropes and fishing nets found washed Since 2022, Maastricht-based Healix polymers, called Healix, includes PP
up on reefs or drifting in the open sea, has been operating a recycling facil- pellets made of baler twine, maritime
forms hazardous, nearly invisible traps ity that processes and recycles ghost ropes, and big bags, as well as HDPE

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