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Nov 173 min read

STUDENT AWARDS - Call for Student Papers at ANTEC® 2025

The Society of Plastic Engineers: Australia-New Zealand Section (SPE: A-NZ Section) is offering student awards worth A$3,000 for...

Sep 292 min read

How to Break Down Polymers Using Light and Oxygen

Researchers discovered how to break down polymers effectively, without using high temperatures or pressures. The researchers from The...

Aug 282 min read

Can Flexible Plastic Packaging Be Recycled?

The TotalRecycle MRF in Pennsylvania led a groundbreaking project that effectively sorted and repurposed flexible plastic packaging (FPP)...

Jul 102 min read

SPE Granted Accreditation by United Nations Environment Assembly

SPE recently announced its accreditation with the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). This noteworthy distinction establishes SPE...

Apr 163 min read

Replacing plastics with alternatives is worse for greenhouse gas emissions in most cases, study finds

Substituting plastics with alternative materials is likely to result in increased GHG emissions, according to research from the...

Mar 202 min read

SPE: A-NZ President Letter

I hope you had a wonderful break and an amazing start to this year. I would like to use this opportunity to explain SPE ANZ's plan for...

Feb 81 min read

Farewell ERNST WIRTZ

Vale ERNST WIRTZ With the recent sudden passing of Plastic Pioneer long-time member ERNST WIRTZ, a Celebration of his Life is being held,...

Nov 5, 20232 min read

Sidel’s new bottle base design helps enable production of all-rPET bottles for carbonated soft drink

New StarLITE R bottle said to offer wider processing window of recycled PET for blow molders Blow molding machinery maker Sidel has...

Oct 28, 20234 min read

Plastics and Circular Economy conference attendees cast their votes for Australia’s future

Conference attendees vote to stay the course and not shirk from ambitious circularity targets for plastics. There is broad support for...

Oct 19, 20232 min read

Lego drops plan to make its bricks from recycled PET bottles

Lego has found it’s not easy being green. The Danish toymaker spent years testing PET resin made from recycled bottles as a potential...

Oct 13, 20230 min read

Plastics and Circular Economy Conference 2023 - Slideshow

Oct 13, 20234 min read

Outcomes from Plastics and the Circular Economy Conference 2023

Australia and EU are two jurisdictions with potential to achieve full plastics circularity The recently completed 2023 Plastics and...

Oct 2, 20233 min read

A New Way of Controlling the Parison in Extrusion Blow Molding

Ottmar Brandau’s new patent suggests using die rings with spring-loaded pistons A newly issued patent aims to enhance control of the...

Sep 27, 20233 min read

Brazilian partners commercialize graphene-enhanced stretch film

Sevenpack and Gerdau Graphene say new PE film marks a ‘world first’ Brazilian flexible polyethylene film producer Sevenpack has...

Aug 26, 20231 min read

Interview with Helen Millicer, PCEC 2023 conference curator

Helen Millicer, GAICD, Churchill Fellow, our conference curator catches up with Sally Williams from Martogg & Company to talk about what...

Aug 26, 20231 min read

Interview with SPE ANZ president, Hamed Ghajarnia

SPE ANZ is the go-to with regard to scientific and engineering knowledge relating to plastics. Martogg Industry Moment team, Sally...

Aug 22, 20233 min read

New Polyolefin Recycling Technology Has Commercial Promise

In the past, we discussed a technology developed at Virginia Tech University, in which the long-chain molecules of waste...

Jul 23, 20231 min read

CSIRO Innovate to Grow program: Ending plastic waste

Applications are open for a free 10-week program for small to medium enterprises (SMEs) working on plastic or recycling solutions and...

Jul 9, 20233 min read

Surmounting Challenges in the Medical Plastic Injection Molding Industry

Medical plastic injection moulding companies play a critical role in supplying the healthcare industry with reliable and safe medical...

Jun 4, 20233 min read

'Paper can't be a solution to plastic waste': Canadian environmentalists warn about the rise in sing

The prohibition of single-use plastic products is crucial to Canada's plan of achieving zero plastic waste by 2030, but with the ban,...