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

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 ...

Georgia Tech scientists use mechanical force to break down PET plastic, paving the way for cleaner, faster recycling.

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 ...

A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich bags ...

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

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

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

Aduro Clean Technologies' patented HCT process could revolutionize plastics recycling by handling dirty, mixed feedstocks at lower costs and higher yields than pyrolysis. Its upcoming ...

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 ...

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