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.
Avangard Innovative, which for years has managed commercial recycling streams and sold scrap to manufacturers, is gearing up to play a larger role in resin production.
Canadian HDPE recovery offset decreased recycling of other resins in 2015, according to a recent report, giving overall plastic packaging recycling a net increase for the year.
Plastic film recycling reached a new high in 2015, but less rigid plastic was recycled than in years prior, according to the American Chemistry Council. The group released two market reports at the Plastics Recycling 2017 conference this week.