APR seeks applicants for Plastics Recycling Showcase
2 August 2016
The Association of Plastics Recyclers’ Plastics Recycling Showcase, a program to highlight and promote innovations that have a positive impact on plastics collection and recycling, is accepting nominations for this year’s awards.
Developed by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), the second annual program will focus on recently commercialized innovations developed by APR member companies. An additional category that is focused on community engagement has been added for the 2017 Showcase.
The nomination deadline is Oct. 31, 2016.
“This program is part of APR’s Champions for Change Program, which was created to encourage innovators to address technical challenges facing plastic recyclers,” says John Standish, APR’s technical director. “We recognize that innovation drives the growth of recycling, and is essential to the success of the plastics recycling industry.”
Possible candidates may include the following types of recently commercialized technology or programs:
Packaging Products
Processing Equipment
Recycling Process Step Improvement
Bale Capability
Collection or supply capability for postconsumer plastics
PCR products, products with high PCR content, or new applications of PCR
Community education programs
Demonstration programs within communities to identify new approaches to collection or materials processing
Studies and reports that benchmark today’s capabilities and identify best practices or improvement opportunities.
Showcase recipients are selected by a committee comprised of APR members representing various roles within the value chain. The selected innovators will be recognized during The APR Technical Forum, held in conjunction with the Plastics Recycling Conference on March 6, 2017 in New Orleans.
The innovators also will be featured on the APR website and an APR Educational Web Seminar.
Winners of the APR’s inaugural program and for what they were recognized for are the following:
Carris Reels -- Multi-Purpose High Density Polyethylene Cable Reel
Coca Cola – Simply Beverages line of juices and juice drinks with Constantia SpearRC Pressure Sensitive Labels
Dow – Dow INTUNE olefin block copolymers
Indorama – PolyClear EBM PET 5507 resin for extrusion blow molding
Tomra Sorting Solutions – Autosort flake
Source : recyclingtoday.com