Nestlé Commits To Flexible Packaging Recycling Nestlé Mexico has signed an agreement with Greenback Recycling Technologies and Enval to build a chemical recy- cling plant capable of processing flexible plastic packaging in Mexico.The plant will be designed to handle 6,000 met- ric tons of scrap its first full year and can be scaled up in later years, according to the three firms. The agreement, which Switzerland-based Nestlé calls its first outside of Europe, targets plastic packaging not com- monly recycled, including multilayer flexible and alumi- num-laminated plastics, and“aims to meet the technical and commercial requirements to ensure the circularity of food- grade plastics.” The plant will use microwave-induced pyrolysis technol- ogy developed by United Kingdom-based Enval. The pro- cess transforms plastics into oil feedstock to produce new plastic. The two companies call it “the only technology in the world capable of recycling plastic aluminum laminates by splitting them into high-value oil and aluminum with a low-carbon footprint.” Nestlé said it also will invest in the adaptation in Mexico of U.K.-based Greenback’s eco2Veritas circularity platform, designed to provide“complete traceability of the neutraliza- tion and recycling process.” JW Aluminum Plant Obtains GreenCircle Certification JWAluminum,headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, said its Russellville,Arkansas, aluminum rolled products facili- ty is the first to achieve GreenCircle Certified LLC’s Certified Environmental Facts multiattribute certification. Specific to the alloys currently produced at JW Aluminum’s Russellville plant, the Certified Environmental Facts labels from Royers- ford, Pennsylvania-based GreenCircle provide environmental data, including recycled content composition, carbon foot- print and energy reduction and waste diversion. Arbor Hills Energy Fined Over Clean Air Act violations A settlement has been reached between the U.S. Justice Department, the state of Michigan, the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA) andArbor Hills Energy LLC over re- ported Clean Air Act violations at a SalemTownship landfill. Arbor Hills Energy has agreed to significantly reduce –if not virtually eliminate—its sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions at its landfill gas-to-energy facility to resolve the alleged violations. State and federal officials claimArbor Hills Energy had several CleanAirAct violations, including exceeding the facility’s per- mitted SO2 emissions limits.The facility converts landfill gas (LFG) into electricity by burning it in four gas turbines. Un- der the settlement,Arbor Hills Energy will either construct a renewable natural gas facility that converts LFG into pipeline quality natural gas and would virtually eliminate SO2 emis- sions or install a sulfur treatment system that achieves a 64 percent reduction in SO2 emissions by March 2023.
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