The firms have signed a MoU for a multiphase collaboration to assess the technical and commercial feasibility of using ...

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 ...

Regulators have spent tens of millions subsidizing ‘advanced’ recycling facilities, which release carcinogens and give off more greenhouse gases than making plastic from crude oil. Last year ...

This computer-generated image depicts the ... on reducing the wave of plastic waste. The study determined that four policies to improve the economics of plastic recycling, better fund waste ...

Recycling and upcycling efforts are intensifying as the most viable options for managing plastic wastes, with radiation technologies emerging as an innovative, clean and efficient tool to convert used ...

Many consumers trust that when they toss a plastic cup into a recycling bin at a restaurant or coffee shop, it will be recycled and turned into something new. However, a CBS News investigation ...

Despite growing concern over the public health and environmental impacts of plastic pollution, the global recycling rate for this material has remained largely stagnant for years. Is it time to ...