By Larry Walton When Robert Lipskoch was drawing the plans for his house, his kids wanted a curved slide from the second to ...

Most people are aware that plastic waste is a problem. Almost all types of plastics that we use in our everyday lives are ...

As computers like the venerable breadbox Commodore 64 age, their plastic doesn’t just turn increasing shades of yellow and ...

Plastic is one of the world’s most versatile materials. A component of everything from digital technology to space exploration, it’s also an important piece of the American economy, with plastics ...

Plastics are made from crude oil and petroleum by-products, so a team of scientists decided to explore if they could turn waste cooking oil into a useful plastic material, and they succeeded. The ...

Compounder Star Plastics LLC announced yesterday the merger of Trivalence Technologies, a supplier of custom-engineered plastic resin compounds using recycled and virgin sources. The strategic and ...

When pickleball exploded in recent years as America’s favorite sport, the pastime came with collateral damage — plastic neon-colored balls piling up in landfills. More than 500 million pickleballs are ...

Plastics News has spent years developing a process for all-access subscribers to download resin pricing data, and it's now available. To capture and download a rolling three-year history of our resin ...

While much of the world was taking the day off to honor the working class, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) chose May 1 to release the 2025 edition of The Resin Review. The annual reference book ...