Plastics News

3 days ago | plasticsnews.com | Steve Toloken

Businesses are pushing for California to streamline how it implements its packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) law, claiming it will raise the cost of packaging. They're also urging the state to let companies tap a new $5 billion plastic pollution fund to help pay for the transition to greener packaging materials. The detailed push from industry comes six weeks after California Gov.

6 days ago | plasticsnews.com | Steve Toloken

Washington — A global industry coalition is moving ahead with plans for a public database of human health studies around plastic additives because it expects microplastics concerns to be "negotiated pretty heavily" at the next round of plastics treaty talks in August.

1 week ago | plasticsnews.com | Jim Johnson

A plastics recycling advocacy organization is calling for more government intervention as a way to help kickstart the use of post-consumer resin. The U.S. Plastics Pact, which an outgrowth of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's work in plastics circularity, is out with a new report outlining a vision to help drive increased recycled resin use. "Voluntary and policy solutions aren't either/or — they're mutually reinforcing," said Jonathan Quinn, CEO of the pact, in a statement.

1 week ago | plasticsnews.com | Jim Johnson

A new study out of China backs what many have already said: global plastic recycling is stagnant in the face of rapidly growing production. Researchers at Tsinghua University peg the global plastic recycling rate at 9 percent while there is what they describe as a significant shift in plastic waste disposal.

1 week ago | plasticsnews.com | Steve Toloken

Washington — The American Chemistry Council has a "palpable sense of optimism" that President Donald Trump's administration will bring favorable regulations for chemical and plastics companies, the head of ACC said at a conference April 15. President and CEO Chris Jahn told the Global Chemicals Regulation Conference in Washington that ACC is hoping Trump's leadership can bring clarity they say is needed to regulations for chemical recycling of plastics, among other areas.