OTTAWA — Canadian officials negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution at the United Nations say they didn't push other countries to agree to a cap on plastic production because such a ...

A scavenger collects recyclable items including plastic from a dump site in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) GENEVA (AP) — Negotiations to reach a major treaty to end ...

Since plastic began to be mass-produced in the 1950s, the material has been building up in the environment and in people’s bodies. These six graphs illustrate just how bad the problem has gotten, and ...

Plastic pipe demand continues to grow — in large part through infrastructure projects for drinking water and storm and sanitary sewer systems — despite stiff competition, challenges from environmental ...

Lighthouse Packaging was founded by Ernie Hernandez in 2015 This is the second acquisition FirmaPak has completed since January 2024 when it acquired Apex Plastics Hernandez will continue to lead the ...

IN the majority of the micro-hardness tests 1, the indenter has to be removed to measure the indentation, and this is also the case in designs where the indenter is mounted in the front lens of the ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Tourists can generate twice as much plastic waste per head as residents in African island resorts TUI Care Foundation’s ...

Michigan’s Grand Haven State Park is a little chilly for swimming and sand castles in early May, but the weather is perfect for a cleanup crew combing the shore of Lake Michigan. Volunteers working ...

IRVING, TX — The Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI) has announced that Mike Casavant has joined the association as the new Chair of the Hydrostatic Stress Board (HSB), a technical-based group of ...