Jim Johnson

What can the plastics industry do to help shine its reputation in this time of change?

Colgate-Palmolive Co. has developed a recyclable toothpaste tube and is willing to share the new packaging development with competitors.

Agilyx Corp., which uses chemical recycling to recover used plastics, will open additional offices on the East Coast of the US and in Northern Europe.

America's anemic plastics recycling rate has further deteriorated.

US packaging giant Berry Global Group Inc. and materials supplier Saudi Basic Industries Corp. have announced a partnership to create and use polyolefin resins made from chemical recycling.

BP plc says the chemical recycling project in Naperville, Illinois, Wants focus on hard-to-recycle objects.

Breakthrough technology being developed to return difficult-to-recycle polypropylene to near-virgin quality now is showing promise for at least one other key resin.

A small-scale PET recycling project — but one with some large-scale names behind it — is creating sample bottles partially made from marine debris.

An Australian billionaire known for making his money through iron ore mining wants to change the plastics recycling industry, and he's pledging US$300m (€274m) to do just that.

PepsiCo Inc. wants to cut use of virgin plastic beverage packaging by more than a third by the middle of next decade.

America simply does not have enough recycled PET supply or processing capacity to satisfy commitments being made by brand owners to increase recaptured resin content in their bottles, new data shows.

Hotelier Marriott International Inc., which operates dozens of brands and thousands of properties around the world, now expects to completely eliminate the use of those little plastic bottles in guest bathrooms.

With an ever-growing demand for recycled-content packaging from consumer product brand owners, the world's largest PET maker is investing at least $1bn (€900m) to meet that upcoming need.