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

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — McDonald's Taiwan said Tuesday it has removed plastic lining from its packaging and is switching to ...

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).

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.

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 slick, transparent film we now know as plastic wrap was originally a mistake of chemistry, a residue clinging stubbornly to the bottom of a beaker in a 1930s laboratory. The military ...

A 500-square-foot Trex deck uses about 140,000 plastic bags. Other companies will also buy the recycled film, according to Shari Jackson, director of film recycling for the American Chemistry Council.

The start-up partnered with Lucozade to replace 36,000 plastic bottles at the London Marathon in 2019. Then COVID hit, events stopped, and the company pivoted to focus on seaweed coatings for food ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...