Since its founding, the company has diverted more than 5.5 billion pounds of waste polyethylene (PE) plastic film from ...

New virgin polyethylene (PE) plants coming online in North America from 2016 to 2019 are expected to add 8.8 million tons, or 17.6 billion pounds, of annual production capacity—a 50 percent increase ...

RecyClass, a platform created by Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) to assess the recyclability of plastic films and improve the design of packaging, carried out tests on the compatibility of the ...

Nova Chemicals and Novolex have opened a 450,000 square foot film plastic recycling facility in Connersville, Indiana. The plant aims to recycle 145,000 bales of postconsumer film each year to create ...

In response to the growing demand for sustainable and recyclable flexible packaging solutions, three industry leaders have united their expertise to develop a Recycle-Ready Mono-material PE/PE ...

It's no surprise that innovation in flexible packaging — from mono-material films to fully converted spouted pouches — is increasingly centered on sustainability. In the value-added, converter-driven ...

In a recent article published in Chem Catalysis, researchers addressed the persistent challenge of plastic waste management by exploring advanced catalytic strategies to convert polyethylene into ...

A team of researchers at Brunel University, University College London and Qatar University have raised concerns about the safety of using recycled polyethelene plastic for food, due to the chemicals ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum ...