South Africa-based forest products and paper company Sappi is undertaking a conversion process from graphic paper to packaging board on one of its paper machines at its mill in Somerset County, Maine.

Takeout containers get your favorite noodles from the restaurant to your dining table (or couch) without incident, but they are nearly impossible to recycle if they are made from foil-lined plastics.

Six empty brown paper fry boats arranged next to each other in a grid formation. Credit: William Ludwig/C&EN/Getty In the 1960s, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, the company that popularized ...