According to Towards Packaging consultants, the global polyvinyl chloride packaging film market is projected to reach ...

The caveat is that you can’t take a mixed bunch of plastic parts that variously contain, PP, ABS, PVC, and PC for instance, and recycle them together. In order to recycle, the components need to ...

Perhaps one of the clearest indications of the Anthropocene may be the presence of plastic. Starting with the commercialization of Bakelite in 1907 by Leo Baekeland, plastics have taken the world b… ...

I hope I’m wrong.” There are hints of progress for PVC, but the brittle plastic, along with its cousins PVA and polylactic acid (PLA), remains largely unconquerable by enzymes.

The Brussels-based European Plastics Converters (EuPC) group has extended the scope of its Monitoring Recyclates for Europe (MORE) platform to include polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, recycled polymers.

Since Azek already had a partnership with Return Polymers, Foell says he recognized that Azek was a company with a big sustainability story. Hartz adds that Azek recognized that if it wanted to ...