by Plastics.com Staff | Apr 18, 2018 | Commodity Polymers, Daily News, Environmental, Global
A plastic-eating protein grown in a British laboratory could revolutionise recycling and prevent thousands of tonnes of non-biodegradable waste clogging up landfill sites and the world’s oceans. The enzyme, created by accident during tests by researchers from...
by Plastics.com Staff | Apr 18, 2018 | Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Global, Recycling
In a speech Sunday night, British Prime Minister Theresa May announced her government would earmark £61.4 million towards cleaning the world’s oceans of plastics, Resource reported Monday. The announcement came the night before the start of the 2018 Commonwealth...
by Plastics.com Staff | Apr 16, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, Global, Recycling
The Plastics Industry Association (Plastics), Washington, and 11 partner associations delivered a letter to Capitol Hill April 11, 2018, calling on the House majority and minority leaders to develop and advance an infrastructure investment package to address the...
by Plastics.com Staff | Apr 16, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, Global, North America, Recycling
In the course of one year, Los Angeles area exporters cut their scrap polyethylene shipments to China by 99 percent, leaving thousands of tons of plastic looking for a home. Other countries were only able to absorb about one-fifth of the volume. Plastics Recycling...
by Plastics.com Staff | Apr 16, 2018 | Daily News, Environmental, Global
Swiss company Nestlé is one of the largest providers of beverages in single-use plastic bottles in the world. On April 10, it released an important new policy statement about how it plans to address the scourge of plastic debris, much of which ends up in the oceans....
by Plastics.com Staff | Apr 13, 2018 | Daily News, Environmental, Global
Nurdles. The name sounds inoffensive, cuddly even…. However, nurdles are anything but. “Nurdle” is the colloquial name for “pre-production plastic pellets” (which is in itself rather a mouthful); these are the raw material of the plastic...
