Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

European nations voted Friday to allow for chemical recycling to play a larger role in the production of plastic bottles, ...

The Carolinas Plastics Recycling Council (CPRC) and the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR), Florence, Kentucky, have announced the release of the jointly produced “Your Bottles ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Plastic trash is a problem. In the USA, each person produces an average of 100kg of plastic waste per year. Single-use plastics like drink ...

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on rules for calculating, verifying and reporting recycled content in single-use plastic beverage bottles, including chemically recycled ...

Industry groups dropped their opposition to SB 14, which would have required bottles purchased by the state to have 90 percent recycled content. Sen. Catherine Blakespear amended a bill Monday that ...

Plastic waste surrounds daily life, from food containers and grocery bags to shampoo bottles and medical supplies. Much of it ends up buried or drifting into ecosystems because recycling it is slow, ...

CHONGYANG CITY, HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA, February 9, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The global packaging industry stands at a ...

For years, the toymaker Lego has been trying to figure out how to make its plastic building blocks out of sustainable materials. It’s experimented with all kinds of things — Brazilian sugarcane, for ...

More than three weeks have passed since reusing plastic bottles and containers were banned in Burundi, yet Burundian business policies on bottle recovery are practically non-existent. Some containers ...