Unilever achieves 25% recycled plastic in packaging by 2025, showing how innovation and partnerships drive circular economy ...

In the world of market competition, having the best and brightest package could send company sales into the millions. On the ...

A Sway polybag made from TPSea. Sway’s portfolio includes flexible packaging applications such as polybags, retail bags and food wrappers for consumer brands. The California startup called Sway spent ...

As the last planned negotiations for the plastics treaty prepare to open in South Korea, plastics materials makers from companies including Braskem, BASF and CP Chem are pushing for an agreement that ...

The company says its new resin reduces the fossil content of plastic and can be recycled but biodegrades within months if it escapes into the natural environment. Symphony Environmental's new ...

USTR proposes 10% to 12.5% tariffs on $37.5 billion in plastics imports from 60 countries over forced labor concerns.

Companies are stepping up efforts to cut waste from flexible plastic packaging as new environmental rules target one of the ...

The April 15 fire at a Pinova Inc. chemical plant in Brunswick, Ga., prompted a lot of discussion among the Plastics News editors. The New York Times and other media described the factory as a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about businesses creating a more sustainable economic system. The pervasiveness of plastic has become a global concern. An ...

The plastics recycling company Envision Plastics, Reidsville, North Carolina, a division of Consolidated Container Co., headquartered in Atlanta, says it has shipped more than 5 million pounds of its ...

Hawaii researchers are giving old fishing nets and recycled plastic a second life by mixing them into asphalt roads. Early ...

This video explores what happens when candy is cast in resin with and without its clear wrapper. The experiment compares ...