The world’s largest retailer is partially responsible for a pandemic-inspired surge in ocean plastic. A new report tries to estimate how much. As online shopping has surged during the pandemic, it’s ...

In the past, if you bought LED lightbulbs at Ikea, they probably would have been in a plastic blister pack—something that’s both hard to open and likely to end up in the trash, since most plastic ...

Like it or not, plastic packaging has become an ingrained part of the food system. While it's clearly wasteful to buy salad, sandwiches and chips encased in plastic and then promptly throw that ...

The disclosure provides a clearer view of how future regulation is likely to affect packaging design, recycled content ...

Recycling and sustainability are here to stay, and the plastics industry must adapt in order to survive. That outlook is the main take away of “Rethinking single-use plastics,” a study just published ...

Plastics manufacturers and their customers in the European Union are under constant pressure to reduce the volume of plastics used in packaging, not least by the 2004 EU packaging and packaging waste ...