In a significant shift in trade policy, the United States last year imposed reciprocal tariffs on plastics imports from El Salvador and Guatemala, despite their inclusion in the Dominican ...

A large-scale soft plastics recycling facility at Taree is processing most of Australia's recycled soft plastics and stockpiled waste from the failed REDcycle scheme. Processed soft plastic is sent to ...

The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) is celebrating Plastic Recycling Week from Nov. 10 to 16, reinforcing the industry's commitment to advancing recycling efforts nationwide. The week-long ...

Exhibit A Plastics LLC is expanding with a new 25,000-square-foot facility in Bainbridge, Ind., to make room for its 14 molding machines and future capacity. Exhibit A's machines are currently ...

Letters signed by five state attorneys general recently were sent to the U.S. Plastics Pact, GreenBlue and the Consumer Goods Forum, expressing “collective concern” that the organizations may be ...

John Jungjohann is president of Design Plastics Inc., a plastics processor based in Omaha, Neb. Founded in 1972, the company specializes in thermoforming, vacuum forming and injection molding.

Bamboo plastic sounds like a compelling eco-friendly material for a variety of applications, but its questionable durability and recyclability leave a lot to be desired. Researchers at Northeast ...

Phthalates, chemicals found in plastics, are linked to an array of problems, especially in pregnancy Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable ...

Microplastics are increasingly being found in our bodies and food supply. They are defined as pieces of plastic smaller than 5 millimeters — about the size of a pencil eraser. But they can also be ...

Earlier this month, more than 2,600 international negotiators and industry delegates descended on the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, to finalise the long-awaited Global Plastics Treaty.

Since plastic began to be mass-produced in the 1950s, the material has been building up in the environment and in people’s bodies. These six graphs illustrate just how bad the problem has gotten, and ...

Mr. Franklin-Wallis is the author of “Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future” and an editor at GQ. This essay is part of a series on environmental health. What ...