The Chinese government’s National Sword campaign has targeted the plastic scrap sector throughout the first half of 2017, causing a severe slowdown in importing and processing activity in that nation.

Plastic scrap generation has slowed as is typical in the early part of each year, which is serving to increase or maintain pricing. “Availability is tight and pricing for scrap is steady to increasing ...

We're coming up on America Recycles Day on Nov. 15, and that means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will release the latest official U.S. recycling numbers. For plastics, it's probably not ...

Should it be much more difficult to export low quality recycled scrap plastic around the world, if there are serious doubts about whether it can be handled in an environmentally sound way in the ...