Sustainable Practices

Recycling Technologies will adapt its pyrolysis-based depolymerization process to the commercial recycling of polystyrene.

Naturipe Farms’ heat-seal packaging innovation into film-sealed rPET thermoform packaging will eliminate 48 metric tons of plastic packaging in 2020.

Johnnie Walker Scotch Whisky will be available in a paper-based bottle in early 2021. The bottle will be “100% plastic free” and made “entirely from sustainably sourced wood,” according to Diageo, the multinational beverage alcohol company that...

Simple Truth Recycling aims to recover a range of packaging from 300+ products not currently accepted in curbside programs including produce bags, bread bags and plastic overwrap.

PFAS lawsuits are spreading across the United States and could exceed asbestos as one of the biggest tort cases in the country, according to a lawyer specialized in environmental law. The science, apparently, is irrelevant.

The deal between Nusaned Investment and Suhul Alkhalej will use eco-friendly compounds made from Sabic’s raw materials.

San Francisco–based Brightmark wants to procure 1.2 million tons per year of post-use plastic types 1 through 7 from the eastern half of the United States to recycle into fuel and new materials at its plastics renewal plants.

ELG Carbon Fibre and Aerocircular N.V. join forces to establish a closed-loop recycling scheme for a material typically shredded and incinerated, or landfilled.

The company’s polycarbonate plant in Cartagena, Spain, will be the world’s first large-scale chemical production site to run entirely on renewable power.