Vinyl products are everywhere — from the pipes that deliver drinking water to the discs spinning on turntables to floors, windows, siding, roofing membranes, toys and hospital supplies. However, when ...

Elixir Foundations, a United Kingdom-based social enterprise that offers job training to disadvantaged people, has announced that one of its divisions, a window recycling business entity, expects to ...

Axion Consulting, Bramhall, United Kingdom, has reported that more than 1 million unplasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC-U) post-consumer window frames are being recycled in the U.K. every year through ...

Chicago-based Azek Co. Inc. will begin using PVC scrap from construction and demolition (C&D) waste in its outdoor building products through a partnership with Bothell, Wash.-based DTG Recycle. DTG ...

ANN ARBOR – PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is a prevalent plastic in the United States and is the third highest plastic produced in the world by volume. We encounter PVC every day, since numerous ...

Plastic pollution is a global threat on our lands and seas. Since World War II, we have created over 9 billion cubic tons of it, yet its recycling remains extremely limited. As part of our ...

“The world’s commitment to ending plastic pollution is clear and undeniable,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), when the fifth negotiation session for an ...

In a scene from “Plastic Wars,” correspondent Laura Sullivan, left, surveys plastic waste that can’t be recycled. With plastic production growing during COVID, environmentalists fear waste is also on ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...

Single-use plastic might just be the most insane act of collective self-harm humanity commits every single day. Each year, the United Nations Environment Programme estimates that we discard a ...