Switzerland's Holcim Ltd. spent several years and billions of dollars building a company that could supply nearly all of the products needed in construction, from cement footings to PVC roofing.

The city of Spokane promised to simplify recycling 13 years ago, telling residents they could dump aluminum cans, plastics, newsprint, paper, cardboard boxes, wine bottles and more into one large ...

Aaron Packaging Inc., a blow molding company in Sumner, Wash., has acquired Affordable Plastics & Packaging Inc., allowing it to expand into manufacturing PET bottles. "We didn't have capabilities ...

The Washington-based Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) recently announced the winners of its 2025 Plastic Sustainability Innovation Awards, which are meant to recognize outstanding innovations ...

Ever since, the world has had an almost insatiable hunger for plastics. This is because plastics’ structure—made up of repeating molecular units called monomers, which can be combined and ...

"Petroleum-based plastics have long been the mainstay of packaging applications," said Haibo Huang, associate professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology. "However, their ...

While researchers have long suspected plastics might trigger such effects, by using fulmar endocrine receptors, this study provides the first evidence in a wild seabird. According to the study, an ...

Firefighters worked all day and into the late afternoon on Wednesday at the scene of a blaze that engulfed a plastics manufacturing facility in Saskatoon's north end. The call came in at 5:17 a.m ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Ingested ocean plastics in northern fulmars release chemicals that disrupt the birds' hormone systems by activating or blocking endocrine receptors. These ...

So, where does the remaining 72 percent of these plastics go? To find it, one no longer needs to go to the nearest scrap shop but they can simply open their refrigerators,” the National Research ...

A recent study reveals a concerning link between phthalates, chemicals found in everyday plastic products, and an increased risk of heart disease-related deaths. Exposure to these chemicals ...

"Avoid plastics as much as you can. Reducing your use of ultraprocessed foods can reduce the levels of the chemical exposures you come in contact with," Trasande said. "Never put plastic ...