Plastics ban rules ready for public comment

On Tuesday, the federal government published draft regulations for the banning of certain single-use plastics. The draft…

Major consumer goods companies make progress on plastics

Keurig Dr Pepper, McDonald's Corporation, Procter & Gamble, Starbucks, and The Coca-Cola Company – cut their use of problematic plastic by 57 percent between 2018 and 2020

Walmart Canada eliminating single use bags

The phased approach will see all of Walmart's more than 400 Canadian locations make the change by Earth Day 2022

15 organizations join Canada Plastics Pact

Canada Plastics Pact (CPP) has welcomed 15 new partners following last month’s release of it’s shared action plan to build a circular economy for plastics packaging in Canada. The…

Risk of devastating ‘own goals’ in the plastics supply chain

It is a statement of the obvious that 2020 – 2021 have been difficult years for global manufacturing. Within that context, the plastics industry has been particularly severely affected.

Joint venture to convert plastics to fuel

Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors LLC, and UK green-tech company, Clean Planet Energy, have formed a joint venture partnership to develop Clean Planet Energy USA ecoPlants in key North American markets

Supermarket paves using recycled bags

Supermarket chain Meijer has been trying a recycled polymer modified asphalt (RPMA) parking lot at its supercentre store in Holland, Michigan

Cleaning the ocean by searching the ‘net

OceanHero search engine users have helped recover 21 million ocean-bound plastic bottles

Wendy’s moving to fully recyclable cups

Wendy's is collaborating with Berry Global and LyondellBasell to move from plastic-lined paper cups with limited recyclability to single-substrate, clear plastic drink cups

The plastic recycling system is broken – here’s how we can fix it

For the plastics recycling industry, the pandemic was a bit like the tide going out, exposing its deep-rooted structural problems