Remember that old polyester base layer you could never get clean, the one stuffed back in your closet because every time you put it on it smelled like you just got back from a five-day backpacking ...

A new California law went into effect Jan. 1 that limits the types of plastics donning the recycling symbol. Senate Bill 343, signed into law Oct. 5, is designed to inform consumers of what is and is ...

The U.S. Plastics Pact's focus on phasing out "problematic" plastics in packaging is drawing a strong pushback from resin makers, who see it as based more on ideology than science. But leaders of the ...

We can now tell the difference between a wide range of plastic types and thereby separate plastics according to their chemical composition. This is absolutely ground-breaking and it will increase the ...

A shockingly low percentage of the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic produced every year actually gets recycled.

Just because that plastic item you rinsed out and placed in your recycling bin is labeled as recyclable doesn't mean it actually is. In fact, according to a 2020 Greenpeace report, most types of ...

The ASTM International Subcommittee on Recycled Plastics recently approved what it called major "enhancements" to the plastic resin identification code (RIC) system. The big change? Gone are "chasing ...