Financially too, plastics are expensive: The chemicals in plastic alone cost the US health care system $250 billion in just one year. We can’t recycle our way out of this. Plastic was never made ...

Renée Sharp, director of plastics and petrochemical advocacy at the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council, called this ...

Much of the U.S. uses single-stream recycling, where plastic, glass and paper go into one bin. Here’s what happens to that material and ways engineering is trying to improve the process ...

Amazon’s Sustainable Materials Innovation Lab is trying to design a kind of plastic that's cleaner to make—and easier to ...

Food companies in particular face substantial headwinds to improve packaging sustainability due to regulation and lack of ...

Shell Polymers will use pyrolysis oil derived from recycled plastics to make polyethylene resin at its complex in Monaca, Pa.

PITTSYLVANIA Cty, Va. (WDBJ) - Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced on Tuesday, May 13, that a startup that focuses on processing ...

Dublin, April 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Recycled Plastic Resins Market - Forecasts from 2025 to 2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The recycled plastic ...

The new southern Virginia company is focusing on collecting and reprocessing industrially generated plastic scrap. Green Recycle USA LLC, a startup company that collects and reprocesses industrially ...