Fewer plastic bags are being used in the U.K., and a German beverage producer continues to take recycling into its own hands.
Fewer plastic bags are being used in the U.K., and a German beverage producer continues to take recycling into its own hands.
A bottle deposit system is being pushed in England, and plastic film recycling expands in New Zealand.
Flexible film packaging is being accepted at the curb in one Midwest city, and thousands of plastic bags have been diverted from landfill thanks to a group of charitable women.
Chicago’s City Council backs a fee on plastic bags, and your laundry may be sending microplastics into the ocean.
Plastic foam isn’t going out of style, and one forecast predicts steady growth in the global recycled plastics market.
Oregon’s plastics recycling business goes global, and the pioneering work of a recycled plastics lumber researcher is chronicled.
ExxonMobil is part of a project developing a type of flexible film that could be more easily integrated into the PE collection stream, and a detergent bottle maker focuses on recycled HDPE.
A facility near London is using a new baffled oscillation technology to separate PP and PE in a water tank, and a study says more rPET could be used in hot-fill containers.
The EU’s European Parliament has introduced a widespread directive requiring member countries to find ways to cut down on plastic bag usage.
A group fighting California’s statewide ban on plastic bags is now pushing a second ballot measure that could cause confusion for voters and push grocers into bag-ban opposition.