Plastics are tightly woven into the fabric of modern agriculture. Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use ...

There’s that unpleasant moment when you get home from the dry cleaner: You remove the plastic film covering your clothes, and since most curbside recycling programs won’t accept it ...

Nova Chemicals Corp. has officially commissioned its first polyethylene film recycling facility, Syndigo 1, in Connersville, ...

That's typically a big no-no in the world of single-stream recycling as plastic films contaminate other recyclables and can wrap around sortation equipment. But optical sortation and air ...

The slick, transparent film we now know as plastic ... Store leftovers in glass containers. 3. Cover foods with aluminum foil instead of plastic wrap. Stretch-Tite makes plastic wrap that contains ...

Local organic farmers mainly use manual labor or plastic film covers to control the growth of weeds, but an alternative is needed in light of a labor shortage and plastic pollution, the station said ...

A bill banning all bags made of plastic film at checkout at restaurants, grocery stores, and other retail locations cleared ...

The plant will recycle 145,000 bales of end-of-life plastic film to make more than 100 million pounds of Syndigo-brand LLDPE.

Justine Calma is a senior science reporter covering energy and the ... The most prolific type of plastic litter near coastlines is plastic film — a material that makes up those once ubiquitous ...

The legislation will prohibit stores and restaurants from providing heavier plastic bags, as well as fabric checkout bags, ...