Film & Flexibles

Already North America's largest consumer of recovered film, Trex plans to use considerably more in the future, according to the...

Non-bottle mixed plastics and film recycling have experienced their first major drops in a decade, two studies indicate. But amid...

Biopharmaceutical production scrap consists of different polymers, multi-layer films and some hazardous materials. A recycling program is demonstrating that this...

This story has been updated. A consumer of recovered PE film will spend about $200 million in the next couple...

Governments, MRF operators, reclaimers and end users are calling for government regulation that requires recycled content in plastic bags. Seventeen...

Five plastics recycling projects will take in a total of $11.7 million in California state grants. The awarded companies are...

Retailers supplied composite lumber manufacturer Trex with more than 130 million pounds of recovered film last year. Meanwhile, production issues...

Researchers have found a way to convert post-consumer LDPE and HDPE into energy-storing carbon that can be used in batteries....

In coming years, recycled PET and polyolefins will likely have to continue competing with cheap virgin plastics. But scrap markets...

Consumer packaging company Berry Global will increase its presence in the plastics recycling sector by acquiring a European reclaimer. Plastics...