Plastics News is a weekly, 60,000-circulation trade newspaper delivering global news to a primarily North American market. Founded by Crain Communications Inc. in Akron, Ohio, in 1989, it covers the business of the global plastics industry. Plastics News focuses on commercial, financial, legislative and market-related developments worldwide that affect North American plastic product manufacturers and their suppliers and customers. The publication launched a Web site in 1996.

It is part of the Plastics News Global Group with Europe's Plastics & Rubber Weekly and European Plastics News. In addition, the group publishes a Web site on the Asian plastics industry at Plastics News China.