Northeast MRFs reported blended commodity prices rose up to 9% in Q1. Meanwhile, Casella, Eureka and the City of Phoenix ...

Slowed domestic and export demand, lower feedstock costs, continuing uncertainty of tariffs and their impact on supply-demand ...

Tariffs have resin distribution suppliers and their customers uncertain about how to forecast three-month business plans, ...

In residential construction, pipes made with polyethylene (the most widely used commodity plastic) are marginally better than copper pipes, emitting 3 percent fewer greenhouse gases. Plastic ...

the most important monomer in commodity plastic production. By 2010, Braskem was selling a “fully biological” polyethylene plastic, or bio-PE. The big upside of this material is that sugarcane ...

This introductory course in plastics materials first evaluates how commercial plastics were developed, characterized and compared throughout the relevant industry. Various ASTM testing protocols are ...

“They’re not going to be drop-in replacements for commodity plastics yet,” said Nicholas Boynton, a graduate student at the University of Chicago who led the experiments for the stud ...

Our team is now designing superglue-based plastics with properties that resemble other kinds of commodity plastics while still being easy to produce and recycle.