The study examines a 50,000tpa advanced mechanical recycling facility for flexible plastics.

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste today published The Quest for Quality: Scaling Advanced Mechanical Recycling to Meet ...

A UK survey of 68,000 people recorded 1.5 million pieces of plastic waste in a week, estimating 82 billion pieces annually, ...

Peer into a recycling bin and you'll almost certainly see a problem. Plastic trays, bottles, films all tangled together, ...

The University of Nevada, Reno campus has new drop-off bins for recycling various plastic wrappings and packaging, known as plastic films. The Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) team and their waste ...

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) announced that Wegmans Food Markets has joined the association’s Flexible Film Recycling Group (FFRG). Wegmans is the first retailer to join the FFRG, a ...

Plastic bags can’t go in household recycling bins – here’s what to do instead - In 2018 alone, over 3 million tons of plastic bags, sacks, and wraps in the United States were sent to landfills ...

Plastic film has been notoriously difficult to recycle. The material is excluded from many curbside recycling programs because of its reputation as a “tangler,” as plastic film can get caught in ...

NEW YORK — Soft, stretchy plastics can make up grocery bags, bubble wrap and more. They're impossible to avoid and harder still to properly dispose of. If thrown in the trash, they can take up to ...