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15 Cover story: Advances in bottle and flake sorting Improving performance at the sorting stage can help the entire plastics recycling process. Mark Holmes finds out how optical sorting technologies are providing solutions.
20 New masterbatch enables sorting of black plastics Colour Tone has developed a black masterbatch that is detectable by near-infra red sorting technology.
22 Recycling the best ideas Pressure is increasing on all in the plastics supply chain to improve recycling rates and add value to reclaimed materials, key topics to be addressed at the first Plastics Recycling Technology conference.
24 Rethinking the next generation of PET recycling Liquid State Polycondensation has advantages in the PET recycling process, according to Next Generation Recycling, which will present its P:REACT system at the Plastics Recycling Technology conference.
27 Continuing innovation in continuous melt filters Technology companies are trying new ideas for melt filter systems to deal with the varying levels of contamination in plastics recycling.
37 Demanding more from shredding technology Producers of plastic waste shredders are facing greater customer demands and are responding with new machines that are more reliable, easier to maintain and combine functionality.
43 Compatibilisers recycle the mix Peter Mapleston looks at the latest additives that can handle immiscible resin mixtures to turn mixed plastic waste into high value applications.
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