Sustainability

The EU’s ban on oxo-degradable products fails to distinguish between those materials and Symphony’s oxo-biodegradable technology and, thus, is damaging its business, claims the company.

The Garden State leads the naughty list this year for signing into law the toughest bag ban in the nation.

The partnership will explore pathways for the production of polypropylene using difficult-to-recycle mixed waste plastics.

71,000 plastic retail bags to pave 2,885 square yards of LyondellBasell parking lot in Cincinnati.

First-of-its-kind project supports recovers and repurposes plastic PET water bottles to create a market for long-term use of recyclable materials.

Medtronic Packaging Engineer Jennifer Griffin describes some of the steps taken by the world’s largest medical device company to shrink its environmental footprint.

To counter accusations of fraud, Loop Industries underwent an independent audit of its patented Gen II depolymerization technology.

The world’s largest online retailer has banned a number of plastics in private-label food-contact products, despite the fact that decades-long studies have shown these polymers to be safe for humans under real-world conditions.

Detroit automakers are betting big on electric vehicles (EVs) and California wants to go all EV by 2035. Right now, though, they represent around 1% of all new-car sales.