Hard-to-Recycle Materials

California lawmakers have revised the state’s definition of PET to exclude PETG, meaning products made from the glycol-modified plastic are...

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

After producing 150,000 shampoo bottles made partially with recovered marine plastics, Procter & Gamble will now do the same thing...

Major brands, nonprofit organizations and industry groups will raise $150 million to boost the collection and recycling of plastics that...

In Canada, a number of companies are tackling difficult plastic streams without using traditional mechanical recycling processes. One of them,...

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

International yarn producer Aquafil will invest $10 million to build an Arizona operation generating nylon pellets from post-consumer carpet scrap....

U.S. and Canadian end users could consume more of the recovered plastics generated domestically if prices and specifications meet their...

California lawmakers have approved a bill mandating that carpet stewards achieve a 24 percent recycling rate and discouraging the use...

California lawmakers have sent the governor a bill mandating that carpet stewards achieve a 24 percent recycling rate and discouraging...