Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

According to Towards Packaging consultants, the global mono-material flexible food packaging films market is projected to ...

Envision Plastics, St. Joseph Plastics and PureCycle Technologies LLC are U.S. companies that are trying to find innovative ways to recycle polypropylene (PP). As technology advances, global brands ...

As one of the most commonly used plastics in the world, polypropylene presents a global environmental problem because of issues related to its recycling. Researchers have developed a new way of ...

The Polypropylene Recycling Coalition, a new industry group that aims to improve recycling of PP packaging, is pledging $35 million over five years to help recover more material and develop end ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following eight years extensive research, Nextek Ltd has launched a global multi-participant project (NEXTLOOPP) to address a missing link in the plastics recycling stream - ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nextek’s NEXTLOOPP, the 43-strong multi-participant global project that is closing the loop on post-consumer food-grade recycled Polypropylene (FgrPP), has reached a new ...

A study examining how nanoplastics interact with brain proteins has identified a possible mechanism that could contribute to neurodegenerative diseases.

When it comes to recycling, popularity is everything. Consider the plight of polypropylene (PP), a neglected polymer when compared to more highly recycled polymer brethren polyethylene terephthalate ...

Polypropylene is once again being considered to be "widely recycled" by an on-package recycling information system that had previously downgraded the material. How2Recycle, a Sustainable Packaging ...

Some suppliers say it is, and hope to position clarified PP as a less costly alternative to PET when carton or HDPE packaging is upgraded. Two-stage stretch blowmolding of polypropylene (PP) has long ...

Reclaimers of a variety of resins talked about broader market struggles and considered ways to grow domestic demand for PCR.