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 ...

Sewerage and Water Board examining new technologies that could strengthen pipes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the city intends to eventually replace the Bearspaw South feeder main with a new steel pipeline, some are questioning whether it should explore alternatives such as high-density polyethylene (HDPE) ...

Approximately 48.6 billion cubic meters of water are lost around the world every day. According to the International Water Association (IWA), the main culprits for this loss are underground leaks on ...