PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most produced plastics in the United States and the third highest by volume in the world. PVC makes up a vast amount of plastics we use on a daily basis. Much ...

A new chemical process gives PVC waste a surprising second life, turning everyday plastic products into a potentially ...

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is among the most widely produced plastics globally, yet its high chlorine content and additive complexity render mechanical recycling and conventional thermal treatments ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Wednesday rejected a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity to list discarded polyvinyl chloride as hazardous waste under federal law. The Center ...

Ineos’s Inovyn polyvinyl chloride (PVC) business has started up two pilot plants at its R&D center in Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Belgium, to test a solvent dissolution process for recycling PVC. Inovyn says ...

Plastic is one of the world’s most ubiquitous materials, essential to daily life as we know it. Production is growing at a rate of 3.4 percent—three times faster than our global population growth.

Ottawa, July 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global polyvinyl chloride packaging film market size stood at USD 14.06 Billion in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 17.48 Billion by 2034, according to ...

On 3 May 2022, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) announced it had settled its case against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S.

Researchers have shown that a common plastic additive called carbon black can depolymerize polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride (PVC), two of the least recycled plastics in the planet’s waste stream It ...

A legal agreement announced today will give the agency nine months to assess the risks associated with polyvinyl chloride, more well known as PVC. EPA may finally classify a commonly used plastic as ...