The plastics manufacturing sector is confronting a demographic shift as a substantial portion of its workforce approaches retirement age. This aging trend in the industry has accelerated in recent ...

In the finalization of an agreement announced last September, the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) is now a division of ...

Technology is slowly advancing in a way to green the plastics industry. Carbon Capture and Storage and recycling are currently the most cost-effective ways to halve emissions. Heating with green ...

Plastic is just about everywhere, piling up in streams, landfills, and even our bloodstreams and placentas. The United Nations agrees that something must be done, given both the excess of waste and ...

This content was paid for by an advertiser and created by Crain's Custom Content. In the competitive landscape of plastics processing, where innovation and reliability are paramount, Milacron stands ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The newest flashpoint in a political battle between environmental groups and the ...

California’s ban on polystyrene was one of the biggest wins for environmentalists in the state’s recent history. It went into effect on Jan. 1 — but no one, including the governor’s office and ...

Jan Dell is a former chemical engineer who has spent years telling an inconvenient truth about plastics. "So many people, they see the recyclable label, and they put it in the recycle bin," she said. ...

Tucked into a green-sounding federal recycling bill filed last month is a wish list, not of tough new mandates to get a handle on the world’s plastic’s crisis, but of regulatory rollbacks and ...

A pilot project in Georgia is addressing one of the home insulation industry's most persistent sustainability challenges — the disposal of hard-to-recycle plastic packaging that typically ends up in ...

For decades, the fossil fuel industry has urged recycling as an alternative to bans or cuts in the single-use plastic filling world landfills and oceans. Now, with the annual U.N. Climate Change ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Tucked into a green-sounding federal recycling bill filed ...