This year, a group of researchers tackled one of the most difficult problems facing modern recycling services: the plastic in e-waste. A group of scientists from Frieburg, Germany, published a ...

So, what makes plastic recycling so difficult? As an engineer whose work focuses on reprocessing plastics, I have been exploring potential solutions. In cities that use single-stream recycling ...

They found that just 9.5 percent of the 400 million tonnes of new plastic in 2022 was produced from recycled materials. "The global recycling rate remained stagnant... reflecting little ...

New research led by ecologists at the University of Toronto examining annual plastic pollution entering oceans, rivers and lakes around the world, outlines potential impacts of various mitigation ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

Irradiating materials is no longer just a manufacturing tool, but also a recycling tool, so the ionizing radiation techniques used to modify polymers are relevant for plastic waste processing. Bin ...

This is the first instance of this type of plastic recycling in the US, accepting all plastic waste. RESIN8 will be used in the upcoming BallPark Commons development project adjacent to the stadium.

There also aren't that many cities with recycling programs that accept plastic film, says Darby Hoover, a senior resource specialist who works on plastic waste issues at the Natural Resources ...

ORLANDO, FL / ACCESS Newswire / March 31, 2025 / PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:PCT), a U.S.-based company revolutionizing plastic recycling, today, announced a collaboration with Landbell ...