The oil-and-gas industry needs plastic production to rise to offset a decline in demand for transport fuel.

PITTSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Ten cars of a cargo train carrying plastic pellets and cooking oil derailed in upstate New York, with two ending up in a river, authorities said. The cars, part of a 94 ...

Plastic pellets in Cox Creek, Tex., near Formosa Plastics’ Point ... chemicals that can be toxic to aquatic animals and accumulate in the food chain. The oil industry’s push to expand plastics is just ...

The BB-sized pellets made at Quality Circular Polymers (QCP) could hold the key to changing how the world thinks about plastics. Made of polymers repurposed from plastic waste, the pellets ...

"So they take the plastic pellet and they convert that into our ... "And it's much better than pulling crude oil out of the ground to make diesel." Critics of plastics-to-fuel technology say ...

spilling more than 60,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil along the region's shoreline. Authorities say the pellets, which are made of PET plastic, are non-toxic. Still, there are fears the sheer scale ...

Officers have been working with a Scottish firm which produces plastic pellets from bottles and bags ... a carbon benefit by cutting the amount of oil used in the mix. Councils in England have ...