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SAN DIEGO — Approximately 310 million pounds of plastic packaging is produced in the world every year. In fact, soft plastic packaging does not belong in your blue recycling bin because it jams up ...

A new industry-led soft plastics recycling scheme is gearing up to replace Australia’s failed REDcycle programme, aiming to revive collection, reduce waste to landfill and impose a levy on ...

Every day, trucks filled with bales of compacted plastic water bottles, milk jugs and laundry detergent pull up to the bays at the York-based Graham Packaging Recycling Center. The bales bear the ...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has proposed a new industry-led scheme to collect and recycle soft plastic packaging from consumers. The voluntary scheme would be run by the ...

The city of Aspen reiterated this month that, in partnership with Pitkin County, it will continue to recycle soft plastics, which cannot be recycled in a standard recycling bin. Those wishing to ...

Rigid plastic is very useful, but difficult to recycle. At least it was, until the discovery of so-called vitrimers. Using those vitrimers, Researchers at Wageningen University & Research have laid ...

Nice work Surf Coast, your soft plastic recycling efforts are paying off, with the first shipment from Anglesea now on its ...