Steve Toloken

How to handle chemical recycling is emerging as a key sticking point in packaging recycling legislation in New Jersey, with industry groups pushing for the technology to be part of any law.

How to handle chemical recycling is emerging as a key sticking point in packaging recycling legislation in New Jersey, with industry groups pushing for the technology to be part of any law.

WASHINGTON—A key Senate Democrat on plastics issues pressed President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency to focus on

The European Union supports majority voting for a global plastics treaty while suggesting it would rather walk away from a bad deal than agree to a treaty it sees as too weak.

New Jersey environmental groups want their state's attorney general to follow California's lead and sue the plastics industry over allegedly deceiving the public about the viability of plastics recycling.

Washington — With Republicans in control of both chambers of Congress and the White House, they're now showing interest in revising toxic chemical safety rules that they say are holding back U.S. companies.

Fourteen companies in the polystyrene industry are forming an alliance to try to increase recycling and get their material a coveted "widely recyclable" status on labels.

Plastics companies and environmentalists converged on the New York legislature Jan. 28 as lawmakers restarted a debate on recycling and plastics waste that could be the industry's biggest challenge in statehouses this year.

Lakeside Plastics Inc. in Oshkosh, Wis., has agreed to pay a former production technician $60,000 to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S.

WASHINGTON—With Republicans in control of both chambers of Congress and the White House, they're now showing interest in revising toxic chemical safety rules that they say are holding back U.S. companies.