Collaborative mechanical recycling effort designed to support “a circular economy for flexible packaging and films in the Upper Midwest.” The MBOLD effort will lead to a plant with the capacity to ...

Emerald Packaging, the largest supplier of retail flexible packaging for the produce industry, today announced that it has become a member of the U.S. Flexible Film Initiative (USFFI), a nonprofit ...

Plastic film has been notoriously difficult to recycle. The material is excluded from many curbside recycling programs because of its reputation as a “tangler,” as plastic film can get caught in ...

CHICAGO -- Studies show that the overall recycling rate for all plastics is under 10 percent, and that number is likely much lower for plastic bags since they can't be put in into recycling bins at ...

Teaching kids early on about the importance of recycling packaging is a great lesson that pays sustainable dividends going forward. One such program, Trex Plastic Film Recycling Challenge, is ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: The pandemic continues, so does the resulting refuse associated with it. The pandemic caused a huge uptick in plastic garbage in the US. Lots ...

A NexTrex recycling program turns plastic films that are typically hard to recycle into a composite bench for community organizations. The Rotary Club of Summit County became involved with the program ...

Environment Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has awarded a six-month, six-figure contract to Vancouver, BC-based Metaspectral to test an artificial-intelligence-enabled plastic-film sorting technology.

6. The 'Seedling' indicates the packaging it is stamped on is industrially compostable. Compostable plastics which carry this ...