Steve Toloken

A Dutch rotomolding firm outlined how its experiments in artificial intelligence are laying the groundwork for change on the factory floor.

The new United Nations General Assembly session in New York opened with a lot of talk about the plastics treaty and production caps.

California is going after ExxonMobil Corp. in a both-barrels-blazing lawsuit, attempting to lay the problems with plastics and plastics recycling at the oil giant's feet.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed one of the first municipal bag bans in the U.S. as mayor of San Francisco in 2007, signed a new statewide plastic bag ban Sept. 22.

A new industry-backed plastics recycling bill in Congress supports chemical recycling and calls for a national 30 percent recycled content standard in plastic packaging.

An industry representative to United Nations plastics treaty talks says the agreement will kick off years of global focus on the sector.

California is telling EPS foodservice packaging makers to prove that 25 percent of their products are recycled, or be banned from selling in the state.

A federal judge in Washington has brushed aside an attempt by two plastics industry groups to block subpoenas in California Attorney General Rob Bonta's probe into allegations of industry deception on recycling.

Plastics in Politics September 2024: California legislation and EPA’s position on chemical recycling

A California plastics recycling company hopes to build a closed loop system to use old bottles caps to make new caps, similar to bottle-to-bottle recycling now.