Not all plastic is the same. Old yogurt cups and milk jugs, for example, don’t play well together when being turned into new ...

Chemists at Argonne National Laboratory in DuPage County have worked out a new way to recycle certain plastics infinitely, a discovery that could change the way we recycle containers like those used ...

It wasn't intended to indicate plastics' recyclability. But consumers misinterpreted it, and the industry encouraged them.

Plastics recycler Envision Plastics is increasing production capacity of the company's EcoPrime brand of food-grade high density polyethylene by 50 percent through a multimillion-dollar expansion.

Prices for recycled high density polyethylene resin pellets have continued to rise slightly in the last quarter of the year. Natural post-consumer pellet prices increased by 2 cents, mixed-colored ...