Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

Rules around so-called "flexible plastic" are set to change within the next two years in a bid to improve the UK's "outdated" approach to recycling. Flexible plastic is a form of soft, pliable plastic ...

Digital watermarking and AI boost flexible plastic sorting while EPR policies fund infrastructure to overcome recycling challenges ...

A new report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation recommends paper as an alternative to flexible plastic packaging, setting out criteria to avoid impacts like forest degradation and water depletion ...

As an associate member, CNG will collaborate to strengthen material recovery systems and domestic end markets for recycled ...

ShopRite is teaming up with Trenton-based recycling leader TerraCycle on a grocery store program for all brands of flexible plastic packaging. Under the recently launched partnership, dedicated kiosks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Film and soft plastics are sorted and processed at the GFL Environmental recycling facility in Richmond, B.C., on Friday, Sept. 5, ...

Düsseldorf — Styrolution, the two-year-old German-based supplier of styrenic plastics, is working with a leading medical supply producer to develop flexible styrenics that can replace flexible PVC in ...

Ridwell, a third-party recycling company, is offering a new service for hard-to-recycle plastics in Sonoma County and the city of Napa. The service includes a mail-in program where users send ...

Grapevine, Texas — With a new rigid plastics recycling plant up and running for Republic Services Inc. in Las Vegas, the company is now seriously considering jumping into flexible plastics recovery as ...

Recycle BC, a not-for-profit organization involved in residential packaging and paper recycling in British Columbia, has announced that flexible plastics recycling is officially underway for ...

Penn State scientists create elastic gel-like plastic that conducts electricity using salts and tiny fiber networks for flexible electronics.