Two years after downgrading rigid polypropylene containers to “check locally,” a label system has returned the material to its previous status, determining at least 60% of the country has access to PP collection.

O-I Glass will spend up to $240 million on a new glass plant in Bowling Green, Ky., the first to be built specifically for the company's MAGMA technology.

Dow has signed agreements to support both mechanical and chemical recycling plant projects, one located in the U.S. and one in France.

Demand for smartphones is starting to decline, with research finding that worldwide smartphone shipments fell 9% in the second quarter of 2022, compared to the same period last year.

Recycling technology company swissRTec has developed the Battery Master Mill to handle anode and cathode material from lithium-ion batteries.

Two years after How2Recycle downgraded polypropylene rigid containers to a "check locally" label, the material has again been granted the status of "widely recycled."

Dow has signed agreements to support both mechanical and chemical recycling plant projects, one located in the U.S. and one in France.

Insulative material producer Epsilyte is ramping up its capacity for recycling polystyrene with new investments in its Ohio facility.

The Canadian government will develop rules for recyclability and compostability labeling and establish a federal plastics registry for producers of plastic products.

A new life cycle assessment quantifies the impacts of different curbside collection scenarios, concluding that a typical single-stream recycling program reduces overall emissions by almost 40% when compared with simply landfilling the material.