The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, has announced the launch of a Film and Flexibles Task Force to define, pilot and scale recycling solutions for a more than $31 billion U.S. packaging ...

Recycling of nonbottle rigid plastics and plastic wraps, bags and flexible film packaging (collectively known as film) grew by 10 percent in 2016, according to two reports from the American Chemistry ...

Editor’s Note: Film and flexible packaging will be featured in sessions at the 2026 Plastics Recycling Conference, Feb. 23-25 in San Diego, California. Register now! Two industry groups this week ...

ROSEMONT, Ill. — After a rocky couple of years for film recyclers, recent pilot work is moving the notoriously challenging sector forward, and it is positioned to scale in the coming years. They're ...

A report from Eunomia and Delterra outlines the challenges and possibilities for scaling the market. It coincided with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WM bales and sells the plastic film it recovers at its MRF in Germantown, Wisconsin, as it does for other materials such as OCC ...

As the overall recycling sector struggles, plastic film stakeholders are bearing the brunt of the industry’s challenges. | Dmitry Markov152/Shutterstock Editor’s note: Some industry sources for this ...

Three Tokyo-based plastics companies have launched a pilot program to test a new technology for recycling printed biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film back into new flexible packaging material ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A collection of flexible film and plastic bags collected for store drop-off. Extended producer responsibility laws, particularly ...

Winchester, Va.-based Trex Co. Inc. has launched an online national directory to make it easier for Americans to recycle plastic film waste. The goal of the NexTrex Plastics Recycling DropOff ...