Bioplastics

China's border crackdown creates a struggle for survival among legitimate recycling companies, and Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water uses more rPET....

An initiative funded by the European Union is working to recycle petroleum-based PET and polyurethane into bio-based plastics through the...

A major U.K. plastics-to-fuel company is one of 10 companies participating in Unreasonable Impact, a two-week accelerator program designed to...

GM expands its bottle recycling program, and a fight is brewing among plastics stakeholders in Europe over disposable cutlery. From...

A New Zealand teen has a plan to pull plastic from the ocean, and a Colombian firm is turning used...

A plastic bag ban in Texas gets overturned, and local officials in New York weigh the pros and cons of...

A startup based in Richmond, Calif. is making polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) plastic out of organic material. While the innovative process is...

Instead of separating fiber and PE, two British companies are producing a mixed PE-fiber recycled resin, and the growing potential...

Metabolix, a Massachusetts company that developed a bio-based additive for recycled PVC, is scrambling financially and could be forced to...

Over the past two years, Coca-Cola has boosted its recycled PET production capabilities by 20 percent, opening facilities and recycling...