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President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency was told by a leading Senate Democrat to study the science linking microplastics to health problems and to look at how chemical recycling was being oversold as a solution to plastic waste.

Costa Rica is blossoming into a premier region for medical technology in the rubber industry. As of March 2024, more than 80 companies are producing health care and bio-pharma products on Costa Rican soil.

This interactive chart shows the number of years each respondent has been in operation. Data is from our six North American plastic processor rankings, where year founded was provided.

Converting firm Nitto is shuttering three plants — resulting in the loss of 298 jobs total — in Alabama, Ohio and Virginia, and will add 220 jobs with the opening of a new facility in Kentucky.

Resin makers needed to clear out excess inventory, one report states, adding the start of 2025 should see a rally in pricing.

A new coalition of cities and local governments from around the world wants the plastics treaty to include strong rules for extended producer responsibility and to address human health impacts of plastic pollution.

For its investments in Couny Leitrim and County Galway in Ireland, Freudenberg Medical was awarded ‘Medtech Company of the Year' and ‘Medtech Partner/Supplier of the Year' at the prestigious Irish Medtech Awards Dec. 5.

Mary Marcus will replace Ken Baker as New Age Industries' new CEO. Baker will remain on the biopharma and industrial hose manufacturing firm's board of directors.

The headlines from the just-ended talks focused on the failure to find an agreement, in what was supposed to be the fifth and final negotiating session. But countries agreed to another yet-to-be-scheduled negotiation in 2025, and, more importantly, this round gave a much clearer picture of what a final agreement could look like.