Plastics

The U.S. plastic bottle recycling rate declined to 29.7 percent in 2016, continuing a downward turn that began a year...

The U.S. PET bottle recycling rate dropped from 30.1 percent to 28.4 percent in 2016, as the volume of new...

A handful of top global brand owners have made or restated pledges to use or attempt to use only reusable,...

Construction is underway on a massive Los Angeles-area plastics recycling facility that will take in bales of PET bottles from...

The Association of Plastic Recyclers has launched a program aimed at increasing demand for post-consumer polyethylene and polypropylene by having...

In a bid to reduce contamination in the recycling stream, California lawmakers have revised the state’s definition of polyethylene terephthalate...

Over the past month, market prices for curbside paper grades have dropped significantly. Post-consumer plastic prices, meanwhile, have only seen...

In Toronto, as in other cities, multi-family residential recycling rates have been stubbornly lower than their single-family counterparts. As Canada's...

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

For Sonoco Recycling, which collects, sorts, and sells recycled materials, China's imports restrictions have particularly stung in one area: mixed-paper...