After graduating from university, he was "impressed and motivated" by the work Norwich Plastics Inc. was doing to divert post-consumer and post-industrial PVC from landfills. His professional ...

By Noam Scheiber The 88-to-14 result at a Manhattan store creates the first union at the prominent outdoor equipment and apparel retailer. Understanding the activity’s unique challenges ...

Bolton, Ontario-based Husky Technologies CEO John Galt will transition to the role of chairman and Bradley Selleck will become CEO of the injection molding equipment supplier effective Oct. 1.

The US — birthplace of the modern polymers industry, and the biggest producer of its key feedstocks, oil and gas — has joined a bloc supporting a worldwide treaty capping plastics production.

Employees of the Institute of Chemistry of Kazan Federal University and the Kazan National Research Technical University have produced especially strong carbon plastics based on phosphate binders ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste are generated worldwide every year. Scientists are working tirelessly on new methods to recycle a large proportion of this waste into high-quality ...

Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis ... They constitute a core material of modern medicine by helping to keep equipment sterile, deliver medicines and build prosthetics ...

Researchers have cracked the code for turning plastic back into the building blocks to make new plastics. It could revolutionize recycling, which studies have shown is broken. Researchers at UC ...

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell ...