In 1950, global plastic production was about 2 million tons. It’s now about 400 million tons – an increase of nearly 20,000%. As a material, it has seemingly limitless potential. Plastic is ...

Plans to build the UK's first large-scale plastic film recycling facility have been announced. Endolys Ltd has pledged to ...

Chemical recycling company Endolys has announced plans to invest £120 million in a new plastic film recycling plant in Darlington.

Images of plastic mountains at landfills and islands of floating plastics in our oceans demonstrably show that we are living in an age of immense consumer consumption. A rising worldwide population ...

Regulators have spent tens of millions subsidizing ‘advanced’ recycling facilities, which release carcinogens and give off more greenhouse gases than making plastic from crude oil. Last year, I became ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the first ...

SINGAPORE, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell RDSa.L said on Tuesday it plans to build a pyrolysis oil upgrader to turn plastic waste into chemical feedstock at its petrochemical complex in ...

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany — Diversified German chemicals and plastics producer BASF A.G. is investing in a fellow German company that specializes in waste tire pyrolysis, with an eye toward using ...

Ludwigshafen, Germany — German chemicals and plastics producer BASF SE is investing in a fellow German company that specializes in waste tire pyrolysis, with an eye toward using pyrolysis oil as a ...