Kickstart

A leading candidate for prime minister of Canada is promising to roll back plans to reduce the reliance on single-use plastics, including bringing back plastic straws and shopping bags.

A prominent microplastics researcher and policy advocate has been named to Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of 2025, joining luminaries like rapper Snoop Dogg, astronomer Wendy Freedman, President Donald Trump and Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico.

"They were saying that for Easter, could you use plastic eggs, and I said we don't want to do that," President Donald Trump said April 2 about the Easter Egg Roll, at the same event where he declared new tariffs on nearly all imported goods.

During Plastics News' annual Rising Stars profiles, we hope to find and honor not just the people with an impressive title, but those who will be the backbone of the industry during the 21st century.

Laitrim LLC and its plastic modular conveying business, Intralox, came in at No. 10 among USA Today's Best Places to Work.

The band OK Go may be best known for its quirky videos featuring long takes and complex choreography. It also may be the band mostly likely to integrate plastics into its videos.

There's no big secret to becoming a preferred workplace. Or rather, the secret may be the very simple golden rule of treating your workers the way you'd like to be treated, and doing that consistently.

Tariffs may ruin your next game night. That's right, there's no escaping trade war news even when you shut down your computer and silence your phone. I'm as sorry about that as you are.

Toray Industries Inc. sees an opportunity to grow with pickleball, becoming the first materials company and first Asia-based platinum-level sponsor of Major League Pickleball.