Azek, a building products manufacturer, is advancing its efforts to use recycled PVC in its products through a new PVC recycling program. Return Polymers, which was acquired by Azek in February, ...

Plastic is one of the world’s most ubiquitous materials, essential to daily life as we know it. Production is growing at a rate of 3.4 percent—three times faster than our global population growth.

One possible solution that’s emerged in recent years is advanced recycling. Advanced recycling, also called chemical ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

Recovery rates for plastic film jumped between 2022 and 2024, but bottles were recovered for recycling at lower rates than ...

Mandatory curbside collection of soft plastic (chip bags, bread bags, plastic wrap) has just been pushed back from 2027 to ...

Program Expands Company’s Recycling Efforts to Include a PVC Return Program Adding to the 300+ Million Pounds of Waste AZEK is Helping Keep Out of Landfills Annually A professional-focused approach, ...

Three organizations received a combined $332,000 in donations from the Vinyl Institute (VI) trade group, which is trying to increase post-consumer PVC recycling to 160 million pounds by 2025. The ...

PVC and polyethylene pipe producers are boosting recycling efforts, with Return Polymers launching operations near Dallas and Advanced Drainage Systems expanding in Georgia. These initiatives aim to ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. When I called Wayne DeFeo and told him I was considering ...

Plastics labeled with a number 1 inside the recycling symbol are about 20.9% likely to be reprocessed, according to Greenpeace. Plastics numbered 3 through 7 have a reprocessing rate of less than 5%, ...