Film & Flexibles

This story has been updated. A consumer of recovered PE film will spend about $200 million in the next couple...

Governments, MRF operators, reclaimers and end users are calling for government regulation that requires recycled content in plastic bags. Seventeen...

Five plastics recycling projects will take in a total of $11.7 million in California state grants. The awarded companies are...

Retailers supplied composite lumber manufacturer Trex with more than 130 million pounds of recovered film last year. Meanwhile, production issues...

Researchers have found a way to convert post-consumer LDPE and HDPE into energy-storing carbon that can be used in batteries....

In coming years, recycled PET and polyolefins will likely have to continue competing with cheap virgin plastics. But scrap markets...

Consumer packaging company Berry Global will increase its presence in the plastics recycling sector by acquiring a European reclaimer. Plastics...

A North American post-consumer plastics reclaimer is expanding to process additional curbside-grade film, a move the company attributes to rising...

Mixed plastics and recovered carpet aren't usually the preferred feedstock for product manufacturers. But a Texas company making wood alternatives...

Recycled film consumer Trex saw its net income climb by more than 40 percent last year, boosted by ample availability...