Trex, a manufacturer of high-performance wood-alternative decking and railing headquartered in Winchester, Virginia, has announced that its linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) pellets have ...

When it comes to boat construction, all sorts of materials can take part in the assembly. Bigger vessels need heavy-duty structures to last, but even materials like polyethylene can make an excellent ...

Coolrec, an electronics recycling firm headquartered in the Netherlands, has opened its Coolrec Plastics Compounding plant in Emmen, Netherlands. The facility is expected to produce 10,000 tonnes of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Companies that process tiny plastic pellets may soon be under new regulations. The South Carolina Senate passed a bill this week to keep the so-called “nurdles” from spilling ...

Today, the Council and the European Parliament provisionally agreed on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets – the industrial raw materials used to make plastic products – into the ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—On a Friday afternoon in mid-January, college students hugged themselves as they lumbered through the University of North Carolina campus. Temperatures teetered just above freezing.