Cornell University researchers push ahead a technology that could lift PE and PP recycling, and a handful of companies targeting hard-to-recycle plastics grab attention.
Cornell University researchers push ahead a technology that could lift PE and PP recycling, and a handful of companies targeting hard-to-recycle plastics grab attention.
The American Chemistry Council has shared some uplifting news this week: Rigid plastics recycling grew 27 percent by weight in 2014, and film recycling also increased. Continue Reading
With Plastics Recycling 2017 just days away, we’re excited to offer up the final installment of our series of interviews with industry leaders who will be on stage in New Orleans.
China’s new crackdown on illegal scrap plastics imports commanded our readers’ clicks in February, followed by stories exploring PET recycling, ocean plastics and PCR demand.
Garbage and recycling haulers had the fifth-highest death rate of all civilian occupations in 2014, with 27 people losing their lives on the job, updated federal statistics show.
While pressure-sensitive labels can be challenging to remove from plastic bottles in the recycling stream, one company appears to have come up with a solution.
U.S. plastic bottle recycling rose in 2014, continuing a long-term trend dating back to the 1990s.
Axion International, a publicly traded recycled products company based in Zanesville, Ohio, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Students work to recycle PLA filament used in 3-D printing, and an Ohio plastics recycling company closes its doors after more than a decade.
In a continued effort to modernize and simplify the nation’s longest-standing container deposit program, the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative has opened another fully automated and staffed redemption center.