## Patent watch
_By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling_
Sabic Innovative Plastics has been awarded Patent No. 8,227,556, which describes **a blended thermoplastic composition**.
Patent No. 8,230,780 has been awarded to the Paper and Plastic Partnership for **a plastics film recovery system**. The patent describes the so-called Walmart sandwich bale system in which cardboard and plastic film are baled together at retail outlets, then transported to sorting centers where the fiber and plastics are separated and rebaled.
Patent No. 8,225,937 has been awarded to conspicuously German firm Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung, e.V. The process describes **a way of separating flame-retardant polystyrene blends recovered from electronic components**.
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