The plastics recycler is expanding in both Georgia and Ontario, adding 50 million pounds of new capacity between the two projects, the company's CEO said ..read more

Recycled resin prices that have struggled against low prices for virgin materials may be on the path to recover in 2024 ..read more

Sustainable Plastics spoke with Nicholas Kolesch about Alliance to End Plastic Waste projects in Brazil and Indonesia. He discussed the importance of partnerships with local government and the plastic downstream industry; the affect on local communities through training and economic involvement; and shared perspectives on what the future might look like with better managed plastic waste ..read more

Commercial Plastics Recycling Inc. has been recycling exhibitors' items at NPE since the trade show moved to Florida. For NPE2024, it is shooting for a recycling rate of 100 percent ..read more

More than 100 plastics executives descended on Capitol Hill March 19 to talk environmental and tax policy ..read more

The open records lawsuit seeks communications between the plastics industry and the Department of Energy over a chemical recycling and technology partnership that started in 2020 ..read more

The companies will combine their expertise in dissolution technology to recover polyethylene from hard-to-recycle waste for reuse in consumer packaging ..read more

The nation's second-largest solid waste and recycling company recently opened a Las Vegas facility to recycle rigid plastics. Now it wants to use the same concept to recycle flexible plastics ..read more

New statistics show post-consumer plastics recycling falling slightly in the United States as recovery of two flagship resins stumbled in 2022 ..read more

The State University of New York — with 64 campuses and nearly 400,000 students — will phase out single-use plastics across its network of schools ..read more