If you’ve thought that you were seeing problems with supply shortages in the U.S., the United Kingdom is looking far worse, seeing a lack of chickens that shut down fast-food… Read more

The Ocean Conservancy has 35 years of data from its worldwide beach cleanups and the results aren’t pretty.About 70 percent of what teams of volunteers collect is not effectively recyclable,… Read more

I always appreciate a company that sees a need for a product and figures out how to fill it.Sometimes those needs are big, like medical items or safer cars. Other… Read more

Materials firm Selenis is supporting the Business Call for a UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution.The Business Call is a report co-authored by the World Wildlife Fund, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation… Read more

Here are two things you would never have seen a year ago in the plastics industry: a U.S. Senator tweeting about a resin tax and a group of Plastic bottle… Read more

Volunteers working at cities along the Mississippi River.Three Mississippi River cities — and hundreds of their residents — have taken a deep dive into tracking Plastic and other litter along… Read more

The Toy Hall of Fame’s list of finalists for 2021 is out, and while there are many items made using plastics, they’re up against what the hall says “may be… Read more

Workforce issues are always a top concern for plastics processors. It seems like every time we write about the topic, we start by saying something like “now more than ever,”… Read more

Crocs may not be your footwear of choice, but the Colorado shoe company with the comfy foam clogs is set on becoming the greenest shoemaker out there by using bio-based… Read more

After making landfall early today in Texas as a Category 1 hurricane, Nicholas has now been downgraded to a tropical storm, but the National Hurricane Center says it still can… Read more

Let’s talk about pollution and five countries in Asia. Or, more specifically, let’s talk about the study that people like to cite from 2015 claiming that five countries in Asia… Read more

Materials supplier Uniform Color of Holland, Mich., recently collected school supplies and delivered them to local schools.Items collected by the Uniform Color team included 68 boxes of colored pencils, 48… Read more

You recall, I’m sure, the discovery of the “murder hornet” in the U.S. last year, shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic began. The insects are officially an Asian giant hornet and got… Read more

Members of the 202nd Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers (Red Horse) partnered with the 159th Civil Engineering Squadron and New Orleans Parks and Parkways to clear debris… Read more

The Vinyl Institute (VI) trade group joined forces with a nonprofit group to provide a well system to a family of five in Smithfield, Va., that lacked safe potable water,… Read more

For CEOs, base salaries often are only a small part of their pay.There are stock awards and bonuses that often make up more of their compensation than their official paycheck.… Read more

Plastics News intern Kelly Arndt takes over Hollee Keller’s spot for this week to talk CEO compensation.This week marks the annual CEO issue where current and retired CEOs are profiled. As… Read more

Plastics News intern Kelly Arndt takes over Hollee Keller’s spot for this week to talk CEO compensation.This week marks the annual CEO issue where current and retired CEOs are profiled. As… Read more

Herman Miller Inc. knows that you’ve been working at home a lot, and that you expect you’ll still being working at home — at least part of the time —… Read more