Total value of shipments of the plastics material and resin manufacturing industry (NAICS 325211) in the United States from 2008 to 2020 (in million U.S. dollars) Characteristic Total value of ...

“We hire on the basis of attitude. We’ve been doing this long enough that we have grandchildren of employees working for us and doing a great job. I will hire on attitude first and foremost, and if ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

The act aims to reduce plastic waste, encourage research into and technologies for recycling infrastructure, and ensure US leadership in national and international standards development.

Crystal Bayliss sees her career path as helping industry "urgently do the hard work" to make plastics more environmentally sustainable. Bayliss, the director of strategy and engagement at the U.S ...

But the modern era of plastics began a little more than a century ago, when Leo Baekeland, a Belgian chemist who had migrated to the US, invented the first entirely synthetic plastic in 1907.

It’s alarming to consider all of the places plastic infiltrates our food supply and the ways it could be affecting us. Yet eliminating all plastic from your pantry could easily become a full ...

Now, Jarvis has just one question for Impact Plastics: “Why’d you make us work that day? Why? We shouldn’t have worked. We shouldn’t have been there. None of us should have been there.” ...

California’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Monday against Exxon Mobil, accusing the oil giant of misleading consumers about the recyclability of plastic products and polluting the state.

“With Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Mandated PCR legislation taking effect across the US, continued negotiations towards a Global Plastics Treaty, as well as PCR and sustainability ...

Instead of suing us, they could have worked with us to fix the problem and keep plastic out of landfills." The filing follows a two-year investigation initiated in 2022, during which the attorney ...