TC Transcontinental is creating a Recycling Group within TC Transcontinental Packaging. This group will purchase equipment for converting flexible plastics recovered from sorting facilities and other sources into recycled plastic granules.

Charter NEX Films, North America’s leading independent producer of specialty films, announces they have joined the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and their participation in the APR’s Demand Champions program.

U.S. lawmakers unveil Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2020, legislation that would phase out single-use plastic products, hold corporations accountable for products, reduce packaging and reform waste and recycling collection systems.

Lux Research report analyzes the economic forces driving growth across the four main plastic recycling technologies.

A special wash-off adhesive for labels, which HERMA is introducing, will allow recycling operators to produce high-purity PET pellets that do not contain any detrimental residues.

A consortium of five companies is partnering to develop chemical recycling of plastics in France. The consortium will examine feasibility of recycling products currently considered non-recyclable, such as flexible food-grade packaging.

Plastics industry creates transparency for global plastic flows by avoiding environmental littering, and pushing forward with a circular economy, study shows.