The Gardner Business Index (GBI) for August shows plastics processing is still contracting overall, and contracted slightly ...

Injection molder Venture Plastics Inc. has added a Nissei 950-ton injection molding machine and Zeiss inspection system. The additions were made at the firm's headquarters site in Newton Falls ...

A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...

Wright Waste Management in northwest Houston is under fire for reportedly failing to recycle your plastics. Brandy Deason works with the non-profit Air Alliance Houston as the Climate Justice ...

He says Staunton River Plastics is still looking to employ around 200 workers with wages likely to be higher now than originally expected. They will begin ramping up the hiring process closer to ...

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that ...

They constitute a core material of modern medicine by helping to keep equipment ... recycling process that breaks apart the chains of some of the more commonly used plastics — polyethylene ...

Employees of the Institute of Chemistry of Kazan Federal University and the Kazan National Research Technical University have produced especially strong carbon plastics based on phosphate binders ...

JB Pritzker. As an organizer and advocate working in Chicago to reduce single-use plastics, I’d like to share some insights about how this came to be. Dozens of civic groups, museums and ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...

A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...