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5 News PAGE 15


11 Preview: Plastics Recycling Technology Market leaders and industry experts will share their knowledge at AMI’s new recycling conference in California in June


15 Advances in post-industrial recycling James Snodgrass reports on new products and initiatives making use of PIR content from mechanical and chemical recycling COVER PHOTO: MESSE DUSSELDORF


25 Shredder companies on upward trajectory Major developers and suppliers of shredding technology are enjoying strong demand despite economic pressures in the plastics recycling sector. By David Eldridge


33 Amazon’s vision for bioplastics packaging Jennifer Markarian spoke with Amazon’s Director of Materials and Energy Sciences, Alan Jacobsen, and founder of recycling automation start-up Glacier, Rebecca Hu-Thrams, about their collaboration


37 Forming a bond: new compatibilisers Jennifer Markarian finds out more about new technologies in compatibilisers and coupling agents that bring together dissimilar materials for recycling and other purposes


46 Diary


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