The Lorain County Solid Waste Management District will begin accepting plastic grocery bags on Nov. 15 at the Lorain County ...

Soft Plastic Stewardship Australia (SPSA) and its industry members have been granted an eight-year authorisation by the ACCC ...

In case you missed it, in August of this year there were more than 8 billion of us on the planet. Although seven billion or ...

Plastic recycling has failed – by design. Globally, only about 9 per cent of plastics ever made have been recycled. In ...

That’s the conclusion of a new analysis from the American Chemistry Council (ACC), which says that if America dominates the coming advanced recycling industry the same way it has dominated technology, ...

Tomra notes that by 2030 the European Union requires a minimum 55 percent of plastic packaging scrap to be collected and ...

The company says it is encouraging municipalities and customers nationwide to add paper and plastic cups to accepted ...

In the plastic recycling industry, the casualties keep coming. Waste management company Biffa's Sunderland plant closed in February after opening in 2022 at a cost of £7m, while rival Viridor closed ...

Plastic pollution is an increasing global crisis despite large-scale awareness and extensive mitigation efforts. Existing waste management systems and recycling technologies have failed to control the ...

Plastic pollution is often hidden in plain sight – behind positive “eco” or “recyclable” labels, within supply chains and ...