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 ...

MES software is transforming medical plastics manufacturing by automating compliance and enabling real-time traceability.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...