Minnesota's legislature is debating a bipartisan plan to tax plastic beverage bottles to help fund an estimated $12 billion in upgrades to water infrastructure.

The RIS system is designed to perform material cleaning, separation and drying in a single dry mechanical process. Unlike conventional washing systems, the technology operates without water, heat or ...

Mexico’s plastics association Anipac says companies participating in the Operation Clean Sweep program have recovered more than 510,000 metric tons of resin pellets since 2011, with 88 companies now ...

Arburg has put US manufacturing plans on hold as tariff uncertainty clouds investment decisions, while pushing ahead with new production and engineering capabilities in China.

A New York business coalition that includes many plastics companies is stepping up its lobbying against a bill that would try to reduce plastics packaging by 30 percent over 12 years, while advocates ...

The Spanish recycler said “several” European industrial packaging converters expressed commitment to integrate the recyclates in their production ahead of PPWR targets.

Geon Performance Solutions is acquiring Arkadia Plastics Inc. to expand its medical materials portfolio, adding TPU and TPE capabilities.

In this week’s Material Insights, Plastics News senior reporter Frank Esposito reviews recent price movements in key commodity resins and warns that polyethylene could soon break its recent flat ...

Plastics machinery executives in India say the country's "Make-in-India" government initiative and global supply chain shifts are factors behind growth in the market.

The facility, designed to process about 2,000 tonnes of waste foam annually, is scheduled to begin operations in mid-2028 and will use Covestro’s proprietary “smart pyrolysis” technology to convert ...

In this week’s Material Insights, Frank Esposito reports that polystyrene is joining PVC and several engineering thermoplastics all moving higher to start 2026. He links the increases to seasonal ...

Some large consumer brands and global packaging companies are endorsing a call for faster innovation in paper packaging, to develop alternatives to the waste management challenges of flexible plastic ...