The Los Angeles City Council today voted to ban single-use plastic grocery bags. The city becomes the largest in the country to adopt an ordinance to phase out plastic grocery bags.
Spanish packaging group La Seda de Barcelona (LSB) has announced that it will begin insolvency proceedings.
Illinois Tool Works Inc. has purchased Meurer Group, a secondary packaging equipment supplier that serves the worldwide fast-moving consumer goods market.
NEW YORK — Restaurant owners said a proposed bill banning the sale of polystyrene foam foodservice products will cost them double the money and urge the mayor to recycle instead of prohibit the material.
Five years after a failed push to tax single-use plastic shopping bags, the City Council is preparing new legislation to get New Yorkers to find another way to carry groceries, goods and take-out. Environmentalists are massing in support, but industry opposition is likely.
An ASTM International plastics committee has announced a big change to the Resin Identification Code: The iconic chasing-arrows symbol will be replaced by a solid, equilateral triangle.
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The Italian government has passed a law banning the sale of non-biodegradable plastic bags, despite a legal challenge by the United Kingdom government, which claims Rome is breaching EU internal market rules.
The American Chemistry Council announced the launch of a new coalition website to raise awareness about the possible negative impacts of the proposed ban on polystyrene foam in New York City.
Plastic pallet supplier iGPS Co. LLC has filed for bankruptcy and agreed to sell its assets to a newly-formed joint venture company.
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