03.30.24
Here's your weekly recap—the most-viewed news stories on our site for the week ended March 30, 2024.
Dow and the Procter & Gamble are partnering to to create a new recycling technology that will convert hard-to-recycle plastic packaging into recycled polyethylene with near-virgin quality and a low greenhouse gas emissions footprint. To create the new technology, the companies will combine their patented technologies and know-how in the dissolution process. The development program will focus on using dissolution technology to recycle a broad range of plastic materials with a focus on polyethylene and targeting post-household plastic waste (especially rigids, flexible and multi-layer packaging, which are harder to recycle).
Meanwhile, according to reports in Japanese news outlets, Oji Holdings will exit the domestic baby diaper business due to fewer births and falling demand in Japan. It plans to focus instead on adult diapers. Company subsidiary Oji Nepia will discontinue production and shipment of the products in September. Oji Holdings says its annual output of baby diapers has declined to about 400 million in recent years from a peak of roughly 700 million in 2001.
Here are our top 3 most-viewed stories from the past week:
1. Dow, P&G Partner to Develop Recycling Technology
2. Oji Holdings to Stop Producing Baby Diapers in Japan
3. Kimberly-Clark Announces Long-Term Growth Strategy
Dow and the Procter & Gamble are partnering to to create a new recycling technology that will convert hard-to-recycle plastic packaging into recycled polyethylene with near-virgin quality and a low greenhouse gas emissions footprint. To create the new technology, the companies will combine their patented technologies and know-how in the dissolution process. The development program will focus on using dissolution technology to recycle a broad range of plastic materials with a focus on polyethylene and targeting post-household plastic waste (especially rigids, flexible and multi-layer packaging, which are harder to recycle).
Meanwhile, according to reports in Japanese news outlets, Oji Holdings will exit the domestic baby diaper business due to fewer births and falling demand in Japan. It plans to focus instead on adult diapers. Company subsidiary Oji Nepia will discontinue production and shipment of the products in September. Oji Holdings says its annual output of baby diapers has declined to about 400 million in recent years from a peak of roughly 700 million in 2001.
Here are our top 3 most-viewed stories from the past week:
1. Dow, P&G Partner to Develop Recycling Technology
2. Oji Holdings to Stop Producing Baby Diapers in Japan
3. Kimberly-Clark Announces Long-Term Growth Strategy