The house wins again in Michigan, and a California town says it is exempt from the statewide ban on plastic bags.
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The house wins again in Michigan, and a California town says it is exempt from the statewide ban on plastic bags.
A European bottler is putting a twist on bottled water, and a U.K. plastics recycling company strikes a deal to avoid bankruptcy.
The value of old milk jugs and other forms of HDPE scrap rose by more than 25 percent in recent weeks.
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Without using heat or pressure, a small commercial-sized facility in Quebec is breaking down post-consumer PET into its component monomers so they can be recycled into new PET.
Equipment at Vadxx facility in Akron, Ohio.
The leader of Vadxx Energy says his company is close to starting up a plant capable of consuming 25,000 tons of plastic material annually.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will sign a statewide recycling bill that will create an aspirational goal of reaching a 50 percent recycling rate while reworking the way annual data is reported.
Lagging redemption rates in Oregon may spell the introduction of a 10-cent deposit on most beverage containers sold in the Beaver State by 2017.
One industry expert said “skyfilling” of plastic scrap may hurt the climate more than landfilling, and the Closed Loop Fund checks in on a project it helped finance.
Scott Pruitt, photo by Gage Skidmore
After several weeks spent considering a handful of candidates, President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as his nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
Nylon 66 repro and regrind prices were up 4 cents per pound last week on expectations of rallying crude and natural gas prices in December and a resultant rise in feedstock costs. Continue Reading