Film & Flexibles

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation recently honored a team at the University of Pittsburgh and an R&D company called Aronax Technologies...

Scrap plastic exported out of the U.S. is moving to Southeast Asia, where reclaimers are dramatically increasing purchases as China...

In Indonesia, the road to plastic marine debris prevention may be paved with, well, plastic. A unit of Dow Chemical...

Over the past month, recovered PET and film values have fallen, but HDPE grades have seen slight increases. The current...

Lower prices for recovered polyethylene films have helped drive higher profits for composite lumber product manufacturer Trex. The publicly traded...

Great potential exists for increased film recovery in North America, where the residential film recovery rate sits at about 4...

P&G, Coca-Cola and a handful of other major companies have committed to using products containing post-consumer resin in a range...

Anti-incineration activists are criticizing an industry program that diverts traditionally non-recycled plastics away from landfill and into energy-recovery facilities. In...

Prices for post-consumer PET and HDPE containers have remained relatively steady lately, though film values have declined. The current national...

A polymer modifier technology was used compatibilize different resins in multilayer packaging so they could be recycled into new garbage...