Plastics

Indorama Ventures, the world's biggest prime PET producer, has acquired another U.S. plastics recycling company, this time on the West...

A joint venture is set to launch two U.S. processing plants in 2020, bringing new outlets for lower-grade materials. Investments...

The graph below shows the downstream trends for four major plastic resins collected for recycling in the U.S. and Canada...

The CEO of West Coast hauler Recology recently teamed up with environmentalists to submit an initiative that would put single-use...

A Mexican company that developed a system to process post-consumer PET thermoforms will open a $7 million plant in the...

The price of recovered natural HDPE has climbed again, in some areas breaking recent records. The price of OCC dropped...

Coca-Cola Co. uses considerably more recycled resin than many of its global packaging peers. But, like others, it still has...

The current recycling system is insufficient, according to a report from The Recycling Partnership. But several key initiatives - and...

Contaminated bales of recycled paper stonewalled at Indonesian ports were not returned to the U.S. as promised, according to environmental...

The statistic has taken on almost household familiarity: 91% of plastic ever created has not been recycled, and a massive...