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 ...

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.

UNC-Chapel Hill is asking the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to update its air permit to allow it to burn recycled paper-and-plastic pellets at its Cogeneration power plant on Cameron Avenue ...

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 ...

Recycled plastic pellets from polyethylene (PE) can be used when making a water bottle for instance. But we can never have full knowledge of what chemicals will end up in an item made of recycled ...

Recycled plastic pellets can release a hidden mix of over 80 chemicals into water, disrupting hormones and fat metabolism in zebrafish larvae. Researchers warn that unknown and toxic additives make ...

Today, the Council adopted the regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets into the environment, following a provisional agreement with the European Parliament. The new regulation aims to ...