An industry organization is pushing back after the U.S. reportedly announced that it will support a global treaty calling for a reduction in how much new plastic is produced. In a statement, Matt ...

In the two decades to 2019, global plastic production doubled. By 2040, plastic manufacturing and processing could consume as much as 20% of global oil production and use up 15% of the annual carbon ...

Origin Materials CEO, John Bissell, sitting in front of the CapFormer line that makes PET bottle caps using a radical new design. After researching Origin Materials (NASDAQ: ORGN) for my article ...

A Missouri-based plastic cap and plug maker is putting the finishing touches on a major expansion that's more than doubling space while adding new capacity. The work is part of a $15 million ...

Origin Materials is moving briskly with its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) cap and closure technology, which can be used to manufacture tethered or standard caps and enables PET bottle-to-bottle ...

An international agreement to end plastic pollution is due to be sealed this year in Busan, South Korea. At the penultimate round of negotiations, held in Ottawa, Canada, Rwanda and Peru proposed a ...

Origin Materials Inc. working with a Michigan company to begin U.S. production of PET bottle caps later this year. The West Sacramento, Calif.-based company is the first out of the gate to create a ...

BOTTLE MAKERS TO TETHER CAPS TO BOTTLES. SPONSORS OF THIS PROPOSAL SAY SINGLE USE PLASTIC CAPS ARE EASILY SEPARATED FROM BOTTLES, REDUCING THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THEY’LL BE RECYCLED. A NUMBER OF STUDIES ...