House lawmakers tasked with crafting a U.S. EPA budget are standing behind the agency’s waste minimization and recycling program, which would have been defunded under the Trump administration’s fiscal plan.
House lawmakers tasked with crafting a U.S. EPA budget are standing behind the agency’s waste minimization and recycling program, which would have been defunded under the Trump administration’s fiscal plan.
European PET reclaimers have seen their average bale yield decrease from 73 percent to 68 percent in the past six years, an industry association has announced.
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.
Experts shared a broad range of ideas linked by sustainability in the plastics industry during the Refocus Sustainability and Recycling Summit last week.
An international packaging producer has won an award for directly printing onto containers, eliminating the need for separate labels, liners and adhesives.
Demand for recovered commodities sent to China may further diminish as another round of import inspections threatens to slow or shutter Chinese processors.
A French company developing an enzymatic depolymerization process for PET has signed a deal to bring its technology from the lab to a pilot-scale facility.
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.