Once the bales of plastic arrive at Hilex Poly facility, they are shredded, washed and compounded into recycled polyethylene pellets. The post-consumer pellets are part of Hilex’s reinvention of an ...

In addition to manufacturing plastic products, Hilex claims that it operates the largest closed-loop plastic bag recycling facility in the world. Through its process, the company recycles plastic bags ...

Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the ...

After Pennsylvania passed legislation to bar townships from enacting plastic bag bans, a Centre County company got the brunt of some statewide criticism.

One study reports that plastic bags require 71 percent less energy to produce. Plastic bag production also uses less than 6 percent of the water needed to make paper bags.

Discarded shopping bags and spent milk bottles could be given a second life by becoming part of critical infrastructure, new ...

About 25,000 people work in plastic bag manufacturing facilities across the country, according to the industry’s data.

Designer Anya Hindmarch has released a luxury bag made from recycled plastic water bottles. Learn how it is made in a carbon-neutral manufacturing process.

Scientists have discovered that waxworm caterpillars can break down polyethylene plastic, one of the most common and ...

A shortage of large, sterile plastic bags used to grow vaccine cells has hobbled Novavax's work to scale up its COVID-19 shot production.