Hilex Poly, Hartsville, S.C., a manufacturer of plastic bag and film products and the operator of plastic bag recycling facilities, has announced that it will officially open its newly expanded ...

Hartsville, S.C-based Hilex Poly, a leading manufacturer of plastic bag and film products, has announced that it plans to double recycling capacity at its North Vernon, Ind., plant. When the project ...

Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...

Scientists recently created textile fabrics made out of polyethylene – the polymer used in plastic grocery bags as well as many other everyday items – to reduce plastic pollution and make the fashion ...

Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...

Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer - ...

Engineers have developed self-cooling fabrics from polyethylene, commonly used in plastic bags. They estimate that the new fabric may be more sustainable than cotton and other common textiles. In ...

Less than 10% of plastic waste is recycled worldwide, data shows. For more than a decade, Courtney Williams and her family have lived in the shadow of the Wheelabrator waste-to-energy incinerator, ...

To keep plastic bags from blowing along Northland roadsides or filling up landfills for generations to come, more Twin Ports businesses are working to turn them into new decking material. A plastic ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- You may take the extra time to recycle plastic shopping bags by bringing them to a retailer's plastic bag recycling bin. For months, the I-Team and ABC news tracked plastic bags that ...

Does California have a ban on plastic bags? The goals of Senate Bill 270, the so-called plastic bag ban, spoke to the “three Rs” of waste reduction: Reduce the number of plastic bags Californians use, ...

UB researchers have published a journal article quantifying the unintended consequences of New York State’s Plastic Bag Waste Reduction Law and ways to address those consequences. The aim of the study ...