Polyester plastics, commonly found in synthetic textiles and plastic components of home appliances, are notoriously difficult ...

Lawmakers expressed broad interest during a hearing Wednesday in addressing a range of problems facing recycling, from ...

A report assessing state policies on plastics comes just weeks before negotiators meet to attempt to finalize a global treaty ...

Representatives for organizations such as America’s Plastic Makers and the Flexible Packaging Association urged federal ...

A Scottish plastics recycling startup has recently secured a round of Series A funding to scale its pilot recycling plant ...

Speakers from the American Chemistry Council, The Recycling Partnership and the Flexible Packaging Association previewed ...

The equipment will allow the town to compress large volumes of soft plastic film for recycling and re-use as composite ...

The vast majority of plastic that people use, and in many cases put into blue recycling bins, is headed to landfills, or worse, according to a report from Greenpeace on the state of plastic ...

Why recycling plastic isn't as effective as you think, according to industry critics 01:57. Americans' use of plastic boomed during the pandemic, including mountains of single-use items such as ...

Recycling plastic wasn't making economic sense: There were too many different kinds of plastic, hundreds of them, and they can't be melted down together. They have to be sorted out.

The Greenpeace report offers a wealth of statistics and an admirably succinct diagnosis: “Mechanical and chemical recycling of plastic waste has largely failed and will always fail because ...