Plastics Recycling

Dr Pepper Snapple Group brings recycling to more parks

Published in August 2016

A significant grant, made possible by Dr Pepper Snapple Group in collaboration with Keep America Beautiful will help keep parks clean. The Dr Pepper...

adminAugust 30, 2016

Plastics Recycling

Connecticut joins effort to boost plastic film recycling

Published in July 2016

Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) and the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) Flexible Film Recycling Group (FFRG) disclosed a public-private partnership that...

adminJuly 28, 2016

Plastics Recycling

Marine litter up by more than 165 percent draws attention

Published in June 2016

Leaders from plastics organizations across the globe announced that there were approximately 260 projects planned, underway or completed as part of the Declaration of...

adminJune 29, 2016

Plastics Recycling

Expanding polystyrene recycling to curbside level

Published in June 2016

In 2014, a dozen members of the Foodservice Packaging Institute (FPI) came together to establish the Foam Recycling Coalition (FRC) to provide direct support...

adminJune 29, 2016

Plastics Recycling

Pacific Allied Products presented with recycling award

Published in May 2016

Pacific Allied Products, a plastics manufacturer located in Oahu, Hawaii, has been presented with the EPS Industry Alliance’s 2016 Excellence in EPS Recycling Award....

adminMay 31, 2016

Plastics Recycling

DaVinci Roofscapes recycled 800,000 pounds of polymer in 2015

Published in May 2016

DaVinci Roofscapes, a leader in synthetic slate and shake roofing tiles, disclosed that it almost tripled the amount of processed polymer it recycled in...

adminMay 31, 2016

Plastics Recycling

Unilever promotes equal treatment of all recyclables

Published in May 2016

When it comes to recycling, soda bottles and shampoo bottles are not treated equally: only 14 percent of Americans are recycling their bathroom bottles,...

adminMay 31, 2016

Plastics Recycling

Joint effort to recycle more plastic expands membership

Published in February 2016

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) shared that LyondellBasell has joined its Flexible Film Recycling Group (FFRG), a collaboration working to double the recycling of...

adminFebruary 29, 2016

Plastics Recycling

EU plastic packaging waste statistics released

Published in January 2016

According to a report, Plastics – The Facts 2015, released from PlasticsEurope, EU 28+2 recycled 6.3m tonnes, 39.5 percent, of its 15.9m tonnes plastic...

adminJanuary 29, 2016

Plastics Recycling

The McKinsey Center for business reports on plastic waste in oceans

Published in January 2016

The McKinsey Center for Business and Environment recently collaborated on a report with the Ocean Conservancy called Stemming the Tide: Land-based Strategies for a...

adminJanuary 28, 2016