Hilex Poly, Hartsville, S.C., a manufacturer of plastic bag and film products and the operator of plastic bag recycling facilities, has announced that it will officially open its newly expanded ...

Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...

Hartsville, S.C., plastic bag manufacturer and recycler Hilex Poly Co. LLC is acquiring Duro Bag Manufacturing Co., the largest paper bag manufacturer in the world. Duro Bag Manufacturing has a ...

Hilex Poly, a Hartsville, South Carolina-based producer of plastic bags and film, says it has entered into an agreement to acquire Duro Bag Manufacturing Co., a Florence, Kentucky-based manufacturer ...

Following the sold-out success of “I Am Not a Plastic Bag” in 2007, designer brand Anya Hindmarch has launched a new product, called “I Am a Plastic Bag”, aimed at recycling single-use plastic and ...

A shortage of large, sterile plastic bags used to grow vaccine cells has hobbled Novavax's work to scale up its COVID-19 shot production. CEO Stan Erck told the Observer that the shortage of the 2,000 ...

Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer - ...