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After six weeks of testing, the nonprofit Ocean Cleanup group has decided to use a parachute anchor system to slow down its plastic pipe-and-skirt contraption designed to collect marine litter from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Read more

North American shipments of primary plastics machinery increased 8.2 percent in the second quarter of 2019, following a weak first quarter, but they remained sluggish compared with the second quarter of 2018, falling 12.7 percent, according to the Plastics Industry Association. Read more