Higher-end firms, including those doing high pressure laminates like Wilsonart, floundered and ... which currently produces its HDPC (high density plastic core) rigid core product-patented in ...

High Pressure Laminate (HPL), and continuing to grow our business with people who care,” said Korzen. “Our efforts will enable our customers to build a better world and further Wilsonart’s ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a ...

A unit of Illinois Tool Works, Wilsonart has been producing high pressure laminate flooring, which caters to the high end of the market, for 14 years. The company’s products are the only high ...

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year in the U.S., and very little of it is ever ...

The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic packaging and much more. Much of that waste — equivalent ...

These tiny plastic particles can range in size from 5 millimeters (as small as a pencil eraser) to 1 nanometer, which can’t be seen with the naked eye, the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Researchers have cracked the code for turning plastic back into the building blocks to make new plastics. It could revolutionize recycling, which studies have shown is broken. Researchers at UC ...

Ed Cook is active across the waste management and plastic pollution sector. He has worked on projects funded by the World Bank, OECD, UKRI, BBSRC, UNOPS, Royal Academy of Engineering, Pew ...

With emissions spiralling and health impacts mounting, the time for half-measures is over, say experts; India must confront the scale of its plastic pollution Despite ongoing efforts to curb ...

Brandy Deason works with the non-profit Air Alliance Houston as the Climate Justice Coordinator for Plastic Pollution. The organization works to improve our city’s air quality, especially in ...

Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world with 275 million people, but the second largest plastic polluter after China, according to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).