Nohra Padilla said during a side event at the Paris treaty talks that she began working in a landfill, picking out plastic and other waste to sell, when she was 7 years old.
Nominations are open for Women Breaking the Mold 2023; Amcor goes solar in Colombia; a Senate leader on recycling sets his retirement.
The new materials also allow UBQ products to be compounded with a brighter spectrum of colors beyond brown, black and gray.
The next round of plastics treaty talks begin Monday in Paris, and Plastics News will be there.
Problems starting up Shell's new PE facility in Pennsylvania may disrupt planned resin supply, meaning prices may be affected.
A company that uses seaweed as a replacement for standard plastics in foodservice is sucking up more investment capital for expansion.
Plastics News' Rising Stars program highlights the next wave in plastics industry leaders — 35 accomplished and promising millennials and Generation Zers age 35 or younger.
This year, Plastics News received nearly 100 nominations for Rising Stars. It wasn't easy narrowing them down to just 35 people age 35 and younger in the industry.
A dramatic lifesaving took place May 9 at Auburn Career Center, a vocational school for high school students in Concord Township, Ohio, that provides training for plastics manufacturing.
Canada's new passport design includes a polycarbonate page with laser etching.
An unexpected thing happened when Berry Global Group Inc. announced it would close at least 15 plants. Rather than seeing share prices for the publicly traded packaging company fall on news that would seem to be bad, however, its stock value went up.
The financially struggling Tupperware Brands Corp. has brought in help to find ways to survive.
SAG-AFTRA, the actors' union, has joined with the Motion Picture Association to create the Green Council, a new initiative aiming to "promote environmentally conscious and sustainable practices in the entertainment industry."
While some in the media are convinced that plastics recycling is a myth, the numbers show that it's a substantial business — and growing.
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