Total, a France-based petrochemical company, has introduced a range of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) circular compounds with high levels of recycled content, which it will make available to its ...

Greenstar WES, based in the U.K., reports that it hit new production records in December, producing nearly 700 metric tons of food-grade recycled HDPE plastic flake, taking its 2009 production total ...

A barrier solution that "alleviates concerns about multilayered packaging" has now been officially recognized by both the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) in the U.S. and Plastics Recyclers ...

Austrian plastics packaging firm Alpla has strengthened its recycling operations and entered into the high density polyethylene recycling market with the acquisition of two Spanish businesses. The ...

Chemists at Argonne National Laboratory in DuPage County have worked out a new way to recycle certain plastics infinitely, a discovery that could change the way we recycle containers like those used ...

When items travel along a conveyor belt at a sorting facility, they move past a fast-spinning magnetic rotor at the end. This ...

Sorting plastic is hard; scientists found compatibilizers may enable direct recycling of mixed plastics into 3D-printed ...

Our general lack of recycling and reuse of what one would think are recyclable is adding to huge trash piles across the world. Ever since Dustin Hoffman heard the word “Plastics” in 1967, these ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum ...