A Massachusetts-based recycling firm has filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that five large plastics companies and the American Chemistry Council have illegally conspired against the company, resulting in harm to its business. Continue Reading
Coca-Cola’s U.K. distributor announces new recycling goals, and some scientists criticize a marine plastics cleanup project that would send floating collection machinery into the oceans.
A fast-food giant reintroduces foam cups into its Chicago-area restaurants, and one company uses an anaerobic digestion process on end-of-life plastics.
The PET recycling rate is increasing in South Africa, and a PVC recycling program in the U.K. gets kudos.
Residents of a settlement in Zambia collect and sell scrap plastics in place of a formal hauling service, and ag plastics recycling efforts grow in Australia.
A major newspaper calls for the most-populous U.S. state to ban EPS packaging, and a study finds toxic flame retardants end up in children’s toys made from recycled e-plastics.
One manufacturer that uses recycled plastics will acquire another, and Pennsylvania may be moving to prohibit plastic bag bans.
An appeals court in New York has rejected an attempt by the New York City Department of Sanitation to restore a ban on expanded polystyrene food-service products. Continue Reading
A Canadian company’s bottle-to-bottle recycling operation gets a boost, and a recyclable oxygen-barrier film is developed for food packaging.
French company Carbios has developed an enzyme-based recycling technology, which breaks down PET into monomers that can be used to create new plastic. Continue Reading