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Mexico, Switzerland and other countries are pushing for the global plastics treaty to include provisions on health risks from chemicals in plastics.

The U.S. resin sector is experiencing significant disruption in early 2025 due to a combination of tariffs, feedstock costs and unstable domestic demand.

Washington is officially the seventh U.S. state to adopt packaging EPR. By 2032, it will require companies using plastics and other packaging to pay 90 percent of the cost of residential recycling for the materials.

Manufacturing Revitalization Corp. of America (MRCA) has acquired three direct-to-consumer and e-commerce brands: Semi Exact, Subpod and Hungry Bin.

A plastics and rubber industry conference honored several companies for using technology and better communications to try to make their factories safer.

Why controlling your golf ball’s chemical composition helps to control your shots around the green.

Christmas isn’t canceled yet, but The Toy Association says many of its members fear they won’t survive until the end of the year if tariffs continue.

Details about tariffs on the plastics supply chain seem to change daily. Tariffs are likely to  significantly affect plastics companies’ costs, supply chains, pricing strategies and global competitiveness.

Cranston, R.I.-based health care packaging supplier Nelipak Corp. is expanding with a new, 60,000-square-foot packaging production facility in Grecia, Costa Rica.

An unexpected Trump administration focus on health concerns about chemicals in plastics and on microplastics, and bipartisan support for a bottle bill in Texas, was the focus of this month’s Plastics in Politics Live. Recording below.  Both developments are not what you might expect from Republican-led governments in Washington and Austin, but they show how in some cases, plastics policy issues are moving in some untraditional ways, said Steve Toloken, assistant…