The first plant in the United Kingdom to recycle plastics into material for food packaging has been announced with the signing of a joint private and public sector funding agreement. The plant, ...

The Pennon Group, Exeter, U.K., the parent company of U.K.-based recycling company Viridor, has broken ground on a £65 million ($82 million) plastic recycling plant that seeks to produce electricity ...

In the plastic recycling industry, the casualties keep coming. Waste management company Biffa's Sunderland plant closed in February after opening in 2022 at a cost of £7m, while rival Viridor closed ...

Pending policies that demand more recycling cannot offset problems of high costs and competition from cheap virgin polymers ...