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

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 ...

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 ...

The National Weather Service is advising SoCal residents that a “winter-like storm system” will make its way to the region ...

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

A new report by NGOs International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) and Beyond Plastics scrutinizes the chemical recycling industry that is on the rise in the U.S. and other parts of the world, ...

For more than a decade, Courtney Williams and her family have lived in the shadow of the Wheelabrator waste-to-energy incinerator, located along the Hudson River in Peekskill, New York. "We go outside ...

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 ...

At the Republic Services Recycling Center on Cole Road, waste whirs on a conveyor belt past workers who scramble to pull contaminants off the line. Trash goes in barrels at the workers’ sides, and ...