Our planet is choking on plastics. Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in landfills, are polypropylene—which is used for things such as food packaging and bumpers—and ...

Plastic is one of the world’s most ubiquitous materials, essential to daily life as we know it. Production is growing at a rate of 3.4 percent—three times faster than our global population growth.

When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

Three organizations received a combined $332,000 in donations from the Vinyl Institute (VI) trade group, which is trying to increase post-consumer PVC recycling to 160 million pounds by 2025. The ...

Discover how Procter & Gamble applies its cleaning expertise to develop advanced recycling technologies like LAZRmark, FlexLoop, and dissolution for cleaner plastic.

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The Ocean Recovery Alliance, headquartered in Hong Kong, has released “Towards Circular Plastics: Assessing the Impact of Recycling Technologies in Tackling Plastic Pollution,” a report that assesses ...

A squat, light-colored building in Tigard, Oregon, was supposed to be part of a game-changing new solution for the global plastics industry. Called Regenyx, this recycling facility took in polystyrene ...

The Coated Fabrics and Film Association-Vinyl Roofing Division (CFFA-VRD), the trade association for the PVC (vinyl) roofing industry, has ramped up efforts to promote recycling in recent years. The ...