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Focus on recycled content prompts search for the best way to hit targets
One thing that gets wide agreement now in the plastics waste debate — from American Chemistry Council policy papers to the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act in Congress — is that the U.S. needs more government mandates for recycled content.
Regional prices for polyethylene resins and PET bottle resin finished flat for the month, but a PE increase attempt didn't go down without a fight.
North American polyethylene prices declined by an average of 5 cents per pound in November as improving supplies caught up with demand for the material.
PE prices in the region also had dropped 5 cents in October. The October decline was the first seen in the PE market in 17 months. Prices had surged since early 2020 as a res...
The Asian ABS market has mostly tended to slide since around mid-September if not for occasional price spikes. A combination of bearish factors including increased supply, low season, and falling spot styrene prices maintained the downward momentum in the fourth quarter of 2021.
For Circulus Holdings PBLLC, the company's approach is literally in the name.
With one low-density polyethylene film recycling facility recently opening in California, the Houston-based company not only wants to make a difference in plastic recycling but also wants to impact lives along the way.
The US is the world’s biggest culprit in generating plastic waste and the country urgently needs a new strategy to curb the vast amount of plastic that ends up in the oceans, a new report submitted to the federal government has found.
Canada recycles just 12 percent of its plastic packaging — about 21 percent of its rigid containers but only 1 percent of its flexible packaging. A new plan released Oct. 21 from some major consumer product companies and other groups, however, hopes to change that.
A Canadian maker of specialty polymers and ion-exchange membranes for hydrogen fuel cells is setting up a research center in Rochester, N.Y.
The U.S. Department of Defense is once again giving Teel Plastics LLC funds to boost domestic production of COVID-19 swabs.
Baraboo, Wis.-based Teel announced Nov. 18 that it was awarded a $4.65 million firm-fixed price contract to expand production capacity of extruded swab sticks.