The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues ...

Lee Ellen Drechsler of Procter & Gamble says the project is an important part of corporate strategy: "We will not sacrifice ...

The age of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste may soon be over. The secret weapon? A cheap catalyst made from nickel that targets one of our most problematic polymers. The findings are detailed in a ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

OPINION: "Recycling doesn't address any of plastic's human and environmental impacts. It's essentially another form of plastic production, one that usually hurts low-income communities." ...

The company says “char,” a byproduct of its chemical recycling process, is being commercialized under the Tacfiller name and ...

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The Association of Plastic Recyclers has put approvals for packaging with fluorinated "forever chemicals" on hold, citing ...

Speaking at the launch on Friday, Dr George praised the project as a model for sustainability and innovation in marine ...