Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient ...

The plastic lifecycle currently emits more than 0.85 gigatons of greenhouse gases. If current plastic production and consumption patterns continue, emissions could reach 1.34 gigatons per year by 2050 ...

Gardner Business Index hit 52.1, pointing toward optimism as consumer spending increases despite uncertain tariff impacts and labor market conditions.

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

That trait, which makes a coffee lid or a fishing float so useful, also turns plastic into a long-term guest in places it was ...

Biopolymers have a variety of possible applications due to their renewable characteristics and their potential biodegradability. Biopolymers are polymers that are either bio-based, biodegradable, or ...

Attempts in the past have tried adding plastic scrap to traditional building products, but shredding the material and dumping it into concrete or asphalt does not work in most applications because ...

Although many Americans dutifully deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, many of those materials, including flexible films, multilayer materials and a lot of colored plastics ...

First-quarter shipments of primary plastics machinery in North America dipped in value by 24.8% over the previous quarter to $261.9 million, according to a new report from the Plastics Industry ...