Welcome to the Plastics Weekly, NEO’s regular news monitoring of the plastics industry.
This week’s highlights:
- Aqua, a bottled water brand made by French consumer goods giant Danone, has topped a new ranking of Indonesia’s biggest plastic polluters. A study of trash collected by Sungai Watch, a Bali-based environmental non-profit that deploys river barriers all over Indonesia to stop plastic debris from leaking into the ocean, found Aqua-branded single-use water bottles to be by far the most commonly littered items. (Eco-Business)
- Houston-based chemical company LyondellBasell has acquired the mechanical recycling assets and properties containing rigid plastics recycling processing lines from PreZero, a Germany-based recycling and waste management service provider. The transaction includes leasing PreZero’s processing facility in Jurupa Valley, California, which has production capacity of approximately 50 million pounds of recycled materials per year. The company expects to start operations at its new facility in 2025. (Recycling Today)
- Finland-based waste sorting company Syklo has entered into a partnership with UK-based Impact Recycling to construct the largest plastic recycling plant in Finland. The facility, which is expected to process 50,000 tonnes of mixed plastic waste annually, is slated for construction in the southern city of Hyvinkää, with commissioning in 2025. (ChemAnalyst)