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HoPP repro and regrind prices fell last week on an oversupply of recyclable post-industrial and post-consumer PP scrap in many...

A research project explored the use of potentially contaminated recycled content materials behind barriers in food packaging. The conclusion: We're...

A European Union panel approved a pair of proposals that bring recovered material into plastic food and beverage packaging. But...

A recyclable, recycled-content polyester material has been developed for automotive components, and a high-molecular-weight PLA could replace PP in packaging....

The U.S. recycling rate for HDPE bottles dropped slightly in 2015, while the rate for PP bottles increased noticeably. Counting...

A facility near London is using a new baffled oscillation technology to separate PP and PE in a water tank,...

A new compatibilizer boosts the properties of plastics made from mixed streams of PP and PE, according to DuPont. The...

GreenMantra Technologies says its waxes, made from post-consumer plastics, can be used as additives to boost profitability for other reclaimers....

Manufacturers will voluntarily subsidize post-consumer carpet sortation for an additional year. The Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) and the Carpet...

Major consumer brands say they could use nearly 300 million pounds of post-consumer polypropylene for non-food-contact applications over the next...