Recyclers of industrial scrap across all materials segments contend with vigorous competition to get hold of high-quality scrap streams. In a panel discussion at Recycling Today’s Plastics Recycling ...

The Chinese government’s National Sword campaign has targeted the plastic scrap sector throughout the first half of 2017, causing a severe slowdown in importing and processing activity in that nation.

Eni S.p.A.’s E chemical unit, Versalis, and Prysmian S.p.A., a leading provider of energy solutions and telecommunications systems in Italy, have joined forcesto create a circular economy for plastic ...

Children play in a pile of scrap plastic in a village in East Java, Indonesia, while their mother nearby spends the day picking through it for tiny pieces of cardboard to sell back to the paper mill.

This content was paid for by an advertiser and created by Crain's Custom Content. Making productive use of not only in-house plastic scrap but also incorporating post-consumer material is essential to ...

Last year, the U.S. exported more than 950 million tons of plastic waste meant for recycling and a significant portion of that ended up in Southeast Asia. The region has been inundated with plastic ...

Malaysia says it is no longer accepting plastic waste from a handful of nations, including the U.S., that didn’t ratify the Basel Convention. Malaysia emerged as a major destination for waste from the ...

Last year, the U.S. exported more than 950 million tons of plastic waste meant for recycling and a significant portion of that ended up in Southeast Asia. The region has been inundated with plastic ...

Larry Welnowski Jr. moved his plastics recycling business, Nickel City Polymers, from Buffalo, NY to Mauldin, SC. Nickel City Polymers focuses on post-industrial plastic recycling, distributing prime ...