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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Researchers have discovered a way to chemically recycle PVC into usable material, finding a way to use the phthalates in the plasticizers -- one of PVC's most noxious components -- as the mediator for ...

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 ...