Flexible plastic recycling is no longer just a technical challenge. It has become a business imperative for brands, retailers ...

Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9% of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of 2018, the most ...

The new How2Recycle labels will start rolling out on PP cups this year. Years of collaboration between Starbucks, WM and ...

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

A battle has been waging in Sacramento over whether beverage cartons — the ones used for milk, juice, broth, wine, even egg whites — should get the coveted chasing arrows recycling label. Earlier this ...

Bostik, Arkema’s adhesives solutions brand, recently became the 50th company to join Nextek Ltd.’s NextLooPP project to close the loop on food-grade polypropylene (PP). France-based Bostik and ...

Manufacturers use method that labels plastic as ‘circular’ and climate-friendly, despite being mostly fossil-based ...

Plastic waste has long outpaced our ability to deal with it, largely because the most common packaging plastics are hard to ...

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 ...

The EU is preparing stricter customs controls and new codes to prevent virgin plastic from being labeled as recycled.