Chicago’s City Council backs a fee on plastic bags, and your laundry may be sending microplastics into the ocean.
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.
During a conference call with investors, leaders at Trex touched on the company’s newly launched pellet business and other offerings outside the recycled decking space.
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.
A bill in New Jersey’s legislature has been changed to impose a 5-cent fee on single-use plastic bags. Originally, the legislation flat-out banned the items.
The battle over plastic bags in New York City isn’t over yet.