"This new technology offers a cost-effective economic and environmental solution." Researchers develop low-cost melting ...

Denovia Labs announces its first commercialized plastic recycling machine set to launch in 60 days—a groundbreaking technology combating the world’s plastic issue. Discover how this leader in ...

When the Center for Climate Integrity released its report about plastic recycling, one might have expected the environmentalist non-profit to encourage the practice. Anyone raised in the late-20th ...

Much of the U.S. uses single-stream recycling, where plastic, glass and paper go into one bin. Here’s what happens to that material and ways engineering is trying to improve the process ...

Recycling won’t solve the plastic problem. Here’s what will. by Sarah J. Morath, Opinion Contributor - 11/21/23 12:00 PM ET ...

For decades, plastic producers knowingly misled the public about the feasibility of plastic recycling, according to a recent study by the Center for Climate Integrity. The non-profit’s report ...

Plastic pellets created by chemical recycling at ExxonMobil's plant in Baytown, Texas, in 2023. The industry is pitching the technology as an answer to the plastics pollution crisis.

Judith Enck, a former E.P.A. official and the founder of Beyond Plastics, notes that while recycling centers can accept all kinds of plastic, sorting the myriad types and then cleaning and ...

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.

Eve O. Schaub is the author of “Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman’s Trashy Journey to Zero Waste.” The time has come for us to stop “recycling” plastic ...

Even if the 10 remaining chemical-recycling plants in America were to operate at full capacity, they would together process some 456,000 tons of plastic waste, according to a recent tally by ...

Is plastic recycling beyond fixing? California thinks so. On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued ExxonMobil, claiming the oil and petrochemical giant had engaged “in a decades ...