Commercial

Westlake Chemical has agreed to start reporting on spills of pre-production plastic pellets manufactured in its production plants.

Financial Times looks at this century’s plastic boom amid environmental backlash.

Nearly 90 percent of the city’s total costs go toward cleanup; the remaining 10 percent goes toward prevention and outreach.

The law was signed last April by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and will affect all retailers across the state.

The City Council is moving forward with a vetting process for trash hauling companies looking to service one of four waste zones in the city.

The American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance has set a goal that 95 percent of bags will be reused or recycled by 2025.

Labor unions, small businesses and grassroots donors spent upwards of $30,000 on each side to get out the vote for the November 2019 ballot.

The facility can produce more than 17 million square feet of lightweight recyclable packaging a day and 2 billion square feet of recyclable packaging a year.

The Wall Street Journal looks at what New York City’s commercial waste zone law could mean for small, private hauling companies.

If signed into law, the bill would shift the cost of disposal of packaging materials from consumers to the companies that produce them.