From electronic scrap to bulk shipping bags, shredders are finding new roles in the globally expanding plastic recycling sector. Big bags, also known as FIBCs, are usually made of polypropylene and ...

Van Dyk Recycling Solutions uses vertical integration to tackle the global plastic waste crisis through advanced processing.

A well-known international group conducted rigorous worldwide evaluations on both domestic and international suppliers in the same industry. After comprehensive assessments of technological ...

Recycling is not a myth — it’s a movement that’s keeping materials in use, creating jobs and protecting Wisconsin’s ...

Austria-based plastics recycling machinery producer Erema Group has announced that its co-founder and former managing partner Helmut Bacher has died at age 81. “Helmut Bacher is regarded as a pioneer ...

The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging ...

Cleveland — The floors of thermoforming plants are filled with too many old machines, according to market veteran Donald Kruschke. "A majority of machines are old and there are too many of them," ...

Court TV could have switched to all-plastics programming in 2024, and that's not a good thing. Some of the year's top plastics stories happened inside courtrooms. We had New York suing Pepsi over ...

Since China’s 2018 ban on the import of most plastic waste for recycling, Japan has faced a major challenge. Prior to the ban, the country was shipping nearly half of its roughly 1.5 million tonnes of ...

Investigative journalist John Stossel investigates why recycling plastic is counterproductive. He speaks with science writer John Tierney about why it would be cheaper and more environmentally ...