Sustainability
Greenback Recycling Technologies Ltd. plans to open 300 plants in the next two decades to handle hard-to-recycle plastic-aluminum laminates, its founder and CEO says.
The agreement between Covestro and Danish clean energy leader Orsted A/S will supply 90 megawatts of power to Covestro's production site in Baytown, Texas.
A supplier is experimenting with a new method to make PHA resin — by growing it in plants. The technology may offer a lower-cost way to make the family of bio-based resins. Also, Karen Laird shared a detailed timeline on the history of chemical recycling of plastics.
While recent years have heard complaints about "rainbow washing" by corporations during Pride Month, this year, companies are facing a very different atmosphere.
Countries wrapped up the second round of global plastics treaty negotiations on June 2 agreeing to prepare a detailed draft of the treaty for the next negotiating round, with observers saying they saw signs of significant progress as well as major obstacles.
PureCycle Technologies Inc. has spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars to get to this point: solvent purification of used polypropylene.
Walmart Inc. says it's switching its ecommerce flexible packages to paper bags while Absolut Vodka rolls out a "paper" bottle that's actually a little bit plastic too.
PVC compounder Manner Polymers is investing $54 million in a new manufacturing plant in Mount Vernon, Ill.
The packaging company wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by the end of 2030.
Representatives from Saudi Arabia and Russia put more emphasis on the benefits of plastics while countries in the "High Ambition Coalition" called to reduce plastics production and phase out problematic materials.
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