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.
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.
A research project explored the use of potentially contaminated recycled content materials behind barriers in food packaging. The conclusion: We’re not quite there yet, but some important next steps have been determined.
Thousands of additional recycling bins are coming to public spaces, and lab materials are getting a second life.
A plastic bag ban in Texas gets overturned, and local officials in New York weigh the pros and cons of agricultural plastic.
A recyclable, recycled-content polyester material has been developed for automotive components, and a high-molecular-weight PLA could replace PP in packaging.
GreenMantra Technologies says its waxes, made from post-consumer plastics, can be used as additives to boost profitability for other reclaimers.
Projects to recover health-care plastics are highlighted, and greater volumes of packaging for ready-to-eat foods are likely to enter the recycling stream.
The U.S. recycling rate for HDPE bottles dropped slightly in 2015, while the rate for PP bottles increased noticeably. Continue Reading
The renamed Plastics-to-Fuel and Petrochemistry Alliance (PFPA) has added a new member to the growing group.