A major brand owner says it will be using 25 percent recycled plastic in the packaging for all of its U.S. products in three years.
A major brand owner says it will be using 25 percent recycled plastic in the packaging for all of its U.S. products in three years.
Flexible packaging isn’t going away anytime soon, and an upcoming pilot project seeks to ensure it doesn’t go to landfill.
Oregon’s environmental agency has released research that suggests several popular packaging attributes – including “recyclable” and “recycled content” – do not consistently result in lower-impact products.
The leader of a company that is putting millions behind RES Polyflow says plastics conversion technologies today are comparable to renewable energy solutions when they were still in their infancy.
The head of the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) recently voiced concerns that plastics recovery progress could get dampened by stakeholders’ transition to more holistic approaches to materials management.
Malaysia has laid out new criteria for scrap shipments as the country plans for a reduction in imports over time.
Single-use plastics are everywhere, with most of us regularly relying on the convenience of products such as plastic bags, straws, utensils, takeaway coffee cups, food packaging and water bottles.
A Utah recycling facility plans to sort 500 to 600 tons per month of mixed plastics, selling the resulting bales into domestic markets.
China is proposing tariffs on U.S. pulp made from recycled paper, a material that has received recent attention as a potential export to China to replace recovered paper bales.