The use of plastic has skyrocketed over the past decade. Recent statistics reveal that in 2021, each person in the European Union (EU) generated an average of 36 kg of plastic packaging waste.

The Flexible Films Recycling Alliance hopes to boost the recovery of post-consumer films, which has an abysmal recycling rate ...

"Microplastic particles are currently found almost everywhere—in water, food, fish, and even breast milk," says Artūras ...

Sunny Isais, a junior at Colony High School in Ontario, has developed a method for recycling plastic bottles into filament ...

WM, formerly Waste Management, recently distributed a flyer calling on customers to “free your recyclables,” urging recyclers ...

The project seeks to replace plastic water bottles and get plastic trash out of the ocean. A local water company CEO wanted to hear what they had to say.

The global recycled plastics packaging market could achieve 10% compound annual growth during the next seven years, according ...

The Flexible Film Recycling Alliance (FFRA) has announced the launch of its new Plastic Film Recycling Directory. This new resource aims to increase plastic film recycling rates across the United ...

A team from Louisiana State University is reporting a “potential breakthrough” and estimates a new electromagnetic induction heating approach could save “billions of dollars.” ...

Weird, but true. So yeah, thanks for using less single-use plastics and recycling the plastic you did use. Strange to think people didn't used to recycle. Like you dug stuff out of the ground ...

Late January webinar offered by SWANA will feature the circular economy project manager for the Circular Plastics ...

Now the third instalment, Capturing Value Through Basic Mechanical Recycling of Mixed Plastic Waste, outlines the ways in which mechanical recycling can utilize ‘simple’ technologies to convert waste ...