Plastics

PepsiCo, L’Oreal, and Nestle have partnered with a France-based startup company that has formulated an enzyme that could produce a significant advancement in the manner in which plastics are recycled...

A group of scuba divers are using their social distancing time to help people and keep trash out of our oceans by making face masks from plastic water bottles recovered from the oceans, as CNN reported...

Around 300 U.S. and Canadian campuses are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but that has not stopped them from recycling, donating and composting 48.6 million pounds of waste and removing more than 380 million plastic bottles from waste streams...

It’s no secret that more waste is being collected as people are quarantining at home because of COVID-19. Besides the normal residential trash being collected, there are numerous beauty items being tossed such as shampoo bottles, lipsticks, lotion...

HP Inc., a leading provider of personal systems, printers and 3D printing solutions, and a member of the NextWave Plastics consortium, has earned an industry-first ocean-bound plastics certification from UL.  ...

UBQ Materials, a company founded in 2012 by Rabbi Yehuda Pearl and Tato Bigio, has developed a chemical process that turns garbage into recyclable plastic. And the plastic resin industry in the U.S. is taking note.  ...

Before the coronavirus pandemic, there were some indications that the U.S. was “poised for a plastics boom of epic proportions.” In February alone, 343 new plastic production plants and expansions were permitted or planned for the near term, per...