The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, has announced the launch of a Film and Flexibles Task Force to define, pilot and scale recycling solutions for a more than $31 billion U.S. packaging ...

The next 12 months will be crucial for proving viability of flexible film recycling initiatives, said speakers from GDB ...

Plastic bag and film recycling continues to be very much a work in progress, with the domestic industry growing but not enough to overcome the closing off of China and other export markets, according ...

Trex Co. is changing the company's public-facing film recycling program in an effort to become more accessible to more participants. The Winchester, Va.-based company said the NexTrex Plastic Film ...

Recycling of nonbottle rigid plastics and plastic wraps, bags and flexible film packaging (collectively known as film) grew by 10 percent in 2016, according to two reports from the American Chemistry ...

WINCHESTER, Va., Sept. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amid increasing concern related to plastic bag and film recycling, Trex Company [NYSE:TREX] is making it easier than ever for Americans to ...

Nova Chemicals and Novolex have opened a 450,000 square foot film plastic recycling facility in Connersville, Indiana. The plant aims to recycle 145,000 bales of postconsumer film each year to create ...

Closed loop recycling of post-consumer and retail waste plastic films could become a commercial reality within four years, following successful feasibility trials. Refuse sacks, external hoardings, ...

"I've been using plastic film since I started growing flue-cured tobacco. In the past, the waste plastic film was discarded in the farmland and the river, which presented a shocking scene. We all knew ...

Three Tokyo-based plastics companies have launched a pilot program to test a new technology for recycling printed biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film back into new flexible packaging material ...