Plastics manufacturing
Editorial Roundup: Ohio

By The Associated Press Jun. 28, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Cleveland Plain Dealer. June 27, 2021. Editorial: Ohio lawmakers should resist urge to score political points by cutting income tax ...

Complaint may spur review of meat industry's virus response

By Josh Funk Apr. 07, 2021 05:42 PM EDT
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A union complaint about whether an Oklahoma meatpacking plant is doing enough to protect workers from the coronavirus could test the...

Pedestrians carry plastic bags in Philadelphia, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Philadelphia and three other municipalities in Pennsylvania sued the state Wednesday over what they say was a covert abuse of legislative power to temporarily halt local bans or taxes on plastic bags handed out to customers by retailers. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Pennsylvania hauled to court over blocking plastic bag bans

By Claudia Lauer And Marc Levy Mar. 03, 2021 04:44 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: Michigan

By The Associated Press Nov. 30, 2020 10:00 AM EST
The Detroit News. Nov. 28, 2020 Jobless agency still failing unemployed There’s not much worse than being out of work,...

Bright View Technologies, director of operations Michael Bobay, gives North Carolina Governor Roy Copper a tour of the production facility where the company makes face shields on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020 in Durham, N.C. Bright View Technologies produces optical management products and began producing face shields when the COVID-19 pandemic started. (Robert Willett/The News & Observer via AP)
Gov. Cooper sees chances for new jobs post-pandemic

By Adam Wagner, The News & Observer Nov. 19, 2020 04:31 PM EST

Prent Corp. to open packaging factory in New Mexico

Oct. 08, 2020 01:19 PM EDT
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A manufacturer of plastic packaging used for medical equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic plans to build its next factory in southern...

New Jersey lawmakers pass plastic, paper carryout bag ban

By Mike Catalini Sep. 24, 2020 02:21 PM EDT
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Single-use plastic and paper bags, as well as plastic foam containers, would be banned in New Jersey under legislation that passed the...

In this undated photo provided by Outdoor Research in September 2020, a worker handles filter material for face masks in Seattle. A key challenge for N95 mask manufacturers racing to meet spiking demand is scarcity of meltblown textile. (Gerardo Villalobos/Outdoor Research via AP)
Scarcity of key material squeezes medical mask manufacturing

By Martha Mendoza, Juliet Linderman, Thomas Peipert And Irena Hwang Sep. 10, 2020 12:25 AM EDT

Providence schools get donation of 20,000 face shields

Aug. 27, 2020 09:13 AM EDT
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island-based plastics company is donating 20,000 face shields to the Providence public schools. The shields...

FILE- In this March 27, 2019 file photo, plastic bags are tangled in the branches of a tree in New York City's East Village neighborhood. New York's never-enforced ban on single-use plastic bags has survived a lawsuit lodged by a plastic bag manufacturer and convenience store owners, but a state judge ruled Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, that state regulators went too far by allowing stores to hand out thicker plastic bags.. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
NY's plastic bag ban survives lawsuit, but not unscathed

By Marina Villeneuve Aug. 20, 2020 05:27 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 7, 2020, file photo, smoke rises from LG Polymers plant, the site of a chemical gas leakage, in Vishakhapatnam, India. A committee appointed by India’s top environmental court has blamed “gross human failure” and lack of basic safety norms for a gas leak in a South Korean-owned chemical factory this month that killed 12 people and sickened hundreds. (AP Photo/File)
Probe blames safety lapses for deadly India gas leak

May. 31, 2020 05:28 AM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, May 7, 2020, file photo, smoke rises from LG Polymers plant, the site of a chemical gas leakage, in Vishakhapatnam, India. The plastics factory in India where a chemical gas leak killed 12 people and sickened hundreds more last week lacked federal environmental clearance but had been issued state permits to operate anyway, exposing a potentially dangerous enforcement gap in the country's laws. The owner of the LG Polymers plant in Andhra Pradesh state, South Korean chemicals giant LG Chem, said in a May 2019 affidavit that formed part of an application for the clearance that the company "doesn't have a valid environmental clearance substantiating the produced quantity, issued by the competent authority, for continuing operations." (AP Photo/File)
Indian LG plant lacked environmental clearance before leak

By Aniruddha Ghosal And Emily Schmall May. 12, 2020 10:13 AM EDT

People affected by a chemical gas leak are carried out of a truck to an ambulance in Vishakhapatnam, India, Thursday, May 7, 2020. Chemical gas leaked from an industrial plant in southern India early Thursday, leaving people struggling to breathe and collapsing in the streets as they tried to flee. Administrator Vinay Chand said several people fainted on the road and were rushed to a hospital. (AP Photo)
Homicide charges against Indian factory after fatal gas leak

By Omer Farooq May. 08, 2020 02:14 AM EDT

An ambulance drives past the LG Polymers plant from where chemical gas leaked in Vishakhapatnam, India, Thursday, May 7, 2020. Synthetic chemical styrene leaked from the industrial plant in southern India early Thursday, leaving people struggling to breathe and collapsing in the streets as they tried to flee. Administrator Vinay Chand said several people fainted on the road and were rushed to a hospital. (AP Photo)
Chemical leak at LG plant in India kills 11, about 1,000 ill

By Omer Farooq May. 06, 2020 11:58 PM EDT

Indiana company using downtime to make clips for face masks

Apr. 12, 2020 09:02 AM EDT
DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana company is making plastic clips to protect medical workers’ ears from being irritated by the elastic straps on face...

Update on the latest in business:

Apr. 08, 2020 03:35 AM EDT
FINANCIAL MARKETS Asian shares mostly lower, Japan gains on upbeat data TOKYO (AP) — Japan's benchmark advanced but...

In this Tuesday, March 31, 2020, photo, Glen Quadros, owner of the Great American Diner & Bar, places a takeout food order, packaged in compostable containers, into a plastic bag in Seattle. Just weeks earlier, cities and even states across the U.S. were busy banning straws, limiting takeout containers and mandating that shoppers bring reusable bags or pay a small fee. Grocery clerks are nervous that the virus could linger on reusable fabric bags and their unions are backing them up with demands to end plastic bag fees and suspend bag bans. The plastics industry has seized the moment, lobbying to overturn existing bans on single-use plastics. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Pandemic deals blow to plastic bag bans, plastic reduction

By Gillian Flaccus Apr. 08, 2020 01:02 AM EDT