The age of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste may soon be over. The secret weapon? A cheap catalyst made from nickel that ...

The Washington-based Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) has announced the first-ever Recycling in Action month, a new initiative the organization says will increase visibility into the plastic ...

A new catalyst may enable mixed plastic recycling The future of plastic recycling could soon become far simpler and more efficient. Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new plastic ...

A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich bags ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...

Nearly all black plastics get sent to the landfill or get incinerated because their pigment makes them difficult to sort in plastics recycling plants. As a result, the recycling industry pays little ...

Company founded by Ukrainian engineer says its technology can convert mixed plastics into several marketable end products. Ikhlyas WTE and its founder say its system has been designed to handle a wide ...

The fire burning, the banjo playing, the stories, and the sweet aromatic smell of grains; there might not be anything more Americana than the moonshiner, risking it all to provide their families some ...

Many common kitchen items like clamshells, foil and greasy pizza boxes often can’t go in curbside recycling. Food residue on ...

Following a semester of research, UW-Stout Plastics Engineering Professor Wei Zheng is bringing back the findings to the classroom. As part of her sabbatical research during the 2024-25 school year, ...

ExxonMobil is pausing 100 million euros ($118.4 million) of investment in European plastic recycling because of draft EU ...