If you were wondering about alternatives to the landfill, reuse is your only option. Though Mylar is a plastic film, it doesn’t stretch at all (try to force it over your thumb and it will tear).

Brits waste £17bn in food yearly — much of it due to plastic-wrapped multipacks. Experts say ditching packaging could stop ...

The U.S. has less than 5% processing capacity for plastic films, and most of that comes from back-of-store sources like pallet wraps that tend to be cleaner.

One of the largest recyclers of plastic film in North America, Trex recycles approximately 400 million pounds of plastic waste annually, nearly all of which comes from postconsumer sources such as ...

Ridwell co-founder and CEO Ryan Metzger shows off bags full of plastic film in the startup’s warehouse in Seattle’s SoDo area. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) ...

The landscape fabrics found on store shelves come in several types and each one has some utility in the garden. Here's what ...

The film could someday replace traditional packaging materials, but that’s not the only factor that makes it so appealing. It’s also anti-microbial. The cranberry film can work as a replacement for ...

WM and Dow are working together on a new program targeting one of the hardest to recycle materials: plastic film. The new effort is designed to keep thousands of tons of the material out of landfills ...