A five-gallon plastic bucket filled with washed stone and a pair of gallon-sized water jugs helped city engineers in Greenville, SC, decide what kind of drainage system to install on a fast-growing ...

Encoma Ltd. has entered the high density polyethylene pipe extrusion market with a new factory in Elm Creek, Manitoba. The plant is equipped with technology from KraussMaffei Extrusion GmbH that ...

IRVING, TX – The Municipal Advisory Board (MAB) of the Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI) today announced the publication of a new technical document that provides data for high-density polyethylene ...

NEW: A Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association official has a rebuttal to the Beyond Plastics report covered in this story. Read the detailed update here. Bennington, Vt.-based Beyond Plastics, a nonprofit ...

How many more environmental incidents need to occur before we get serious about curbing our addiction to plastic? Officials made the decision to burn off vinyl chloride, a volatile chemical that they ...

Environmental stress cracking in high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes is a critical phenomenon that undermines the structural integrity and service life of essential infrastructure systems. This ...

Jen Muggleton receives funding from the EPSRC and UK Water Industry Research. The UK is losing a staggering 3 billion litres of water each day through leaky pipes. The issue is not limited to the UK ...