by Plastics.com Staff | Feb 15, 2019 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, North America, Recycling
Amazon.com Inc. — Over the last year, Amazon.com Inc. has reduced the portion of shipments it packs in its cardboard boxes in favor of lightweight plastic mailers, which enable the retailing giant to squeeze more packages into delivery trucks and planes. But...
by Plastics.com Staff | Feb 8, 2019 | Daily News, Environmental, Extrusion, North America
Anchorage Daily News — WASHINGTON – Warning letters in hand, Zach Rybarczyk patrolled the food court at Union Station, looking for offenders. Past Auntie Anne’s, past Johnny Rockets. At Lotus Express, a Chinese food joint, Rybarczyk peeled the wrapper from...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jan 29, 2019 | Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Polymer Science
Finland – PNE — The burning issue of ocean litter may be a step closer to being solved with a little help from plastic-eating bugs. The Finnish VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing microbes that degrade plastic as part of a project called...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jan 29, 2019 | Commodity Polymers, Daily News, Environmental
NY Post — As if grocery shopping weren’t enough of a hassle, it’s about to become even more inconvenient in New York — for no good reason. State lawmakers may soon cave to the anti-plastic craze by passing a statewide plastic bag ban. In its zeal to jump on the...
by Plastics.com Staff | Dec 3, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Polymer Science, Recycling, Scrap Plastics
Swindon, UK — In 2016, Recycling Technologies was part of the first cohort of the Barclays Unreasonable Impact accelerator, which supports entrepreneurs that are providing solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges. Two years on it has booked £65m of future...
by Plastics.com Staff | Nov 27, 2018 | Daily News, Environmental
Vienna, Austria — Every minute, a dumptruckful of plastic plops into the world’s oceans. That’s eight million metric tons every year1. Once waterborne, whatever doesn’t wash ashore eventually breaks down into itty bits. The puniest pieces—the ones...
