MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — Australia’s “inconsistent, complex and costly” regulations, unattractive capital investment location and rising gas costs are stunting the plastics and chemical industries’ growth, a trade group says.
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.
Nobody claims to have a foolproof modification to eliminate the alleged fire safety risk in 2.7 million 1993-2007 Jeeps that have put Chrysler Group at odds with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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.
SÃO PAULO — A rebounding economy, millions of people striving to move from poverty into the middle class and key industries in need of more plastics than ever before should push the Brazilian industry forward in 2013. But growth will be...
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Degradable plastics in North Carolina must now be labeled to prevent contamination of recyclable feedstocks, thanks to a measure approved June 5 by the state Legislature.
Members of the Maine Statehouse have plastics on the brain. The House rejected a bill May 30 that would have required shoppers to pay 5 cents for plastic shopping bags. Just days earlier, the House voted unanimously in favor of banning bisphenol A from infant formula cans and baby-food jar lids.
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.
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