A Flexible PVC pipe union. Bill Bowin, CSRE/CBNT, chief engineer at North American Broadcasting, writes that we’ve “beaten to death’” the topic of condensate drains over the last six months, but Bill ...

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 ...

Plastics News isn't the sort of publication with stories that go viral. But we do, occasionally, cover news that nonplastics readers find interesting — even years after they appear in print. That's ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Union plumbers say it's not just the dust from cutting PVC pipe that makes installing it so dangerous. Joe King is a plumbing instructor for the union. He tells the I-Team, "It's the ...

As water utilities mobilize to replace millions of lead pipes across the country, they are sometimes choosing plastic, which some advocates worry can pose its own risks to drinking water. Last month, ...

I spotted this broken PVC conduit at a pier in South Carolina. The cable inside the conduit is UF cable, so at least it is permitted by Sec. 555.13(A)(1) to be used in a wet location. Section 340.10(3 ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - The deadly gas disaster two months ago has many people wondering, could there be more pipe problems across Massachusetts? 7News put our state’s natural gas lines under the microscope.

Greeley Water and Sewer Department staff members have a problem. How do you figure out when a water pipeline is going to fail? After 2017, a year in which Greeley experienced more leaks than at any ...

BENTONVILLE -- Much of the 9 miles of pipe between the regional wastewater plant and the city needs to be repaired or replaced less than a decade after being installed. The estimated cost to fix the ...