Companies around the world are setting up plants to turn discarded, shredded plastic packaging into marketable products. Steady shredding and sorting equipment investments are being made globally to ...

Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9% of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of 2018, the most ...

Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the first product I’d seen born of what’s being touted as ...

JACKSON -- There are two paper-related businesses in one building in north Cape Girardeau County. One business, Missouri Plastics & Recycling LLC, an ISO 9001:2000 company and EPA Waste Wise partner, ...

The group calls for chemical recyclers to consider environmental justice impacts and offer more data and transparency around ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Last week, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith reported on how the City of Houston manages recycling. One question from that report was about the validity of plastic recycling.