In the plastic recycling industry, the casualties keep coming. Waste management company Biffa's Sunderland plant closed in February after opening in 2022 at a cost of £7m, while rival Viridor closed ...

The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) will celebrate Plastic Recycling Week from November 10-16, reaffirming the ...

PLASTICS launches nationwide recycling initiative highlighting innovation and sustainability across the plastics value chain ...

Australia's recycling system has been lurching from one crisis to another for decades. Soft-plastic schemes are collapsing, curbside contamination is on the rise, and states are still struggling to ...

A squat, light-colored building in Tigard, Oregon, was supposed to be part of a game-changing new solution for the global plastics industry. Called Regenyx, this recycling facility took in polystyrene ...

The petrochemical industry has spent the past few years hard at work lobbying for state-level legislation to promote “chemical recycling,” a controversial process that critics say isn’t really ...

Consumer product companies have walked back their plastics sustainability goals, and many recyclers are closing their doors ...

Scientists have developed a method that will allow plastic waste to be used in chemical reactions that make toxic compounds ...

Millennials in the United States grew up taking their ability to recycle plastic bottles, food containers, and other kinds of packaging as an article of faith. The more eco-conscious among us might ...

During the Plastics Industry Awards in London on Sept. 27, DuPont Teijin Films, Chester, Virginia, received the award for the U.K. Best Recycled Plastics Product 2019. The award was for DuPont’s LuxCR ...

The Saudi Arabia plastic recycling market presents opportunities in the growing demand for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and packaging applications. Government initiatives and rising environmental ...

Oil companies are pouring billions into sprawling new petrochemical facilities in a bet that demand for plastics -- which are derived from chemicals made at such plants -- will keep growing ...