For one, the process also looks very close to trash incineration – so there is a question of whether the extracted product is plastic or trash. Of course, this a problem that the moonshiners ...

Discover the incredible process of recycling old plastic waste into durable plastic thread used worldwide. This video showcases how discarded plastic is collected, processed, and transformed into ...

That process is called mechanical recycling, in which recycling is sorted to separate the plastic. Then, the plastic is chopped, melted in an extruder, and shaped in an injection molder.

Traditional recycling — the process of breaking down, melting and remolding plastic to form new products — is expensive, time-consuming and limited to certain plastic types.

Only 5 to 6% of plastic waste produced in the U.S. is actually recycled. A new report accuses the plastics industry of a decades-long campaign to "mislead" the public about the viability of recycling.

Now, his team has discovered an improved process that works on both polyethylene, from which most plastic bags are made, and polypropylene, which is used to make harder objects, and it relies only ...

Current methods to recycle plastics often use expensive catalysts, harsh conditions and produce toxic byproducts. New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be ...

Exxon Mobil has touted 'advanced recycling' as a groundbreaking technology that will turn the tide in the plastic crisis. California says it's a lie.

Recycling "does not solve the solid waste problem," the head of a plastics trade group said in 1989, around the time the industry was launching its recycling campaign.

As plastic piles up in landfills, New York authorities on the state and local levels are shifting their focus from recycling to reduction. Bales of sorted plastic for recycling are seen in a ...

A mixed-waste recycling bin with loose plastic ready for recycling on July 3 in Morden, London. Plastic recycling is notoriously difficult and expensive, leading to a global problem with runaway ...