Plastics

Although Chinese scrap plastic import permits remain scarce, the government has ramped up the volume of recycled paper it is...

A reclaimer and end user will open a $35 million facility in North Carolina, taking in HDPE and mixed-plastic bales...

A year after an online scrap plastics trading marketplace launched, an executive at the startup offered insight into where material...

Scrap plastic shipments to Malaysia will be subject to new restrictions in the coming weeks, as the country follows through...

Public and private entities regularly sample waste streams to glean data on the plastics that could be captured for recycling....

RRS reviewed data from foam polystyrene plastic recycling programs in several communities that had received grants to target the material....

An idled plastics recovery facility is being dismantled and its components sold, after efforts to reopen it for the past...

Residential fiber values have flattened out, while post-consumer PET prices continue a steady recent climb. The national average for corrugated...

A Chinese investment firm is planning a $75 million recycling plant to process scrap plastics, electronics and other materials. The...

A Thai policy restricting the import of scrap plastics has proved effective. U.S. scrap plastic exports to the country dropped...