Viridor Ltd., a waste-management company owned by investment firm KKR & Co., plans to close a recycling plant in the UK due to lack of government support and lower demand for recycled plastic. The ...

Plastic resource efficiency and recycling charity RECOUP has published its annual ‘UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey’, revealing that, of the English local authorities not yet offering ...

Plastics recycling in the UK could take a major step forward in part due to a research project announced today. The project will investigate processes for recycling post-consumer PET plastic bottles, ...

United Kingdom-based polymer manufacturing consulting firm Prea Ltd. has teamed up with International Environmental Solutions (IES), also based in the U.K., to offer a number of plastics recycling ...

The government is introducing new recycling rules in a bid to make it easier for households to organise their rubbish and better understand what can and cannot be recycled ...

Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something useful ...

Plastic waste is becoming an increasing problem, with 50 million tonnes of single-use plastic being produced each year. Plastics are used in the packaging of food and drinks.