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 ...

GUANGZHOU CITY, GUANGDONG PROVINCE, CHINA, January 21, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — In the evolving global plastics and packaging industry, PVC plastic films continue ...

Trex Co.’s NexTrex Grassroots Movement aims to expand plastic film collection to partners who receive lower volume drop offs. Trex Co. is working to expand its polyethylene film collection efforts for ...

A yearslong study, slowed by COVID-19, shows that material recovery facilities can effectively manage flexible plastic packaging given the right circumstances. And, as a side benefit, the equipment ...

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

An innovative transparent PVC food packaging film, developed by Brazilian technology companies Braskem and Alpfilm, uses silver-silica nanoparticles, paving the way towards the next-generation ...

Thermoplastic films have been used in flexible medical product applications since the 1960s, when plasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC) blood storage bags replaced glass bottles. 1 In the 1970s, PVC ...

"The U.S.A. and North America has been a strategically interesting market for the RKW Group for a long time," RKW's spokesperson told MPW, and explained that the company has been actively searching ...

Currently people are putting one item in their recycling - or have their bin left unemptied, but a change is coming ...

In agricultural production, microplastics have become environmental pollutants that cannot be ignored. They may not only enter the food chain through the soil-plant system, threatening food safety, ...