Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic is processed at Exxon Mobil's chemical recycling plant in Baytown, Texas, in October 2023. (Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty ...

Regulators have spent tens of millions subsidizing ‘advanced’ recycling facilities, which release carcinogens and give off more greenhouse gases than making plastic from crude oil. Last year, I became ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the first ...

Today Canon U.S.A., Inc. announced the official North American launch of its groundbreaking Raman plastic analyzer, the TR-A100. The innovative Raman plastic identification equipment is available now, ...

The world now produces more than 400 million metric tons of plastic every year, according to the United Nations Environment Programme, with projections climbing toward 500 million tons within the next ...

The recycling industry, traditionally seen as stable, is in an era of innovation and growth. A class of advanced recycling technologies is emerging to address plastics that conventional recycling ...

Welcome to the economic future of the United States: Big Tech, Big Data — and Big … Recycling? That’s the conclusion of a new analysis from the American Chemistry Council (ACC), which says that if ...

This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News. Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are ...

Plastic is in practically everything, from packaging to products to clothing and furniture. It is a cheap, durable technology that improves health and food safety, has made countless products more ...

Under the Biden administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) dealt two substantial blows to efforts to turn waste plastics into useful products through advanced recycling techniques ...

TotalEnergies SE TTE shares are up during Thursday’s premarket session as it starts production at France’s first advanced plastics recycling plant. This initiative marks a significant step in ...

The fire burning, the banjo playing, the stories, and the sweet aromatic smell of grains; there might not be anything more Americana than the moonshiner, risking it all to provide their families some ...