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

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

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 ...

Polyester plastics, commonly found in synthetic textiles and plastic components of home appliances, are notoriously difficult to recycle. In a study recently published in the Proceedings of the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

French environment services provider Veolia has invested 70 million pounds ($95 million) to build its largest yet plastic ...

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.