The technology provider has worked with two German companies to equip their light packaging sorting facility in Breman, ...

STADLER Anlagenbau GmbH, the globally active German company specialized in the planning, production and assembly of turnkey sorting plants, carried out ...

The collaboration combines Girbau’s automated feeding technology, Sortech, with Picvisa’s Ecosort optical sorting solution.

During important processes like cleaning, fragments of plastic are lost as microplastics. This means the system itself creates plastic waste, and we urgently need to rethink the design and operation ...

Ridwell, and companies like it, offer to take complex plastic items you can't put in your blue bin and find a home for them.

Mitsubishi Chemical’s plant-derived Durabio bioengineering plastic has been adopted for components in the sound system of Dongfeng Nissan's Teana, launched in China in November 2025. Durabio is a ...

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Environmental advocacy and community groups have filed a lawsuit challenging a permit that Formosa Plastics needs to build a massive $9.4 billion plastics plant in St. James Parish. The lawsuit, filed ...

Recycling of flexible packaging has moved from an industry challenge to an industry imperative. In recent weeks, two major industry groups have released new reports aimed at accelerating progress on ...

Last week, I wrote about New Jersey’s effort to protect the environment by banning plastic silverware in fast food restaurants. Like plastic silverware, plastic shopping bags are also overrunning our ...

It’s not often workers’ jobs are saved once their company lists imminent layoffs on the WARN Act report. But when 86 workers were listed by Microplastics Inc. in St. Charles, a last-minute reprieve ...

Imagine a clear food bag strong enough to hold cherry tomatoes on the way home from the store, yet ready to dissolve harmlessly if it ever blows into the ocean. That is roughly what a team of ...