A bill in Michigan restricting local governments from imposing bans or fees on bags or containers has been gaining traction.
A bill in Michigan restricting local governments from imposing bans or fees on bags or containers has been gaining traction.
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.
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.
This story originally appeared in the August 2016 issue of Plastics Recycling Update.
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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.