The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues ...

Lee Ellen Drechsler of Procter & Gamble says the project is an important part of corporate strategy: "We will not sacrifice ...

The age of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste may soon be over. The secret weapon? A cheap catalyst made from nickel that targets one of our most problematic polymers. The findings are detailed in a ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

An Orlando startup called Wriggle Brew is pioneering a unique approach to two major environmental problems: plastic pollution ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

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The company says “char,” a byproduct of its chemical recycling process, is being commercialized under the Tacfiller name and ...

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 ...

The Association of Plastic Recyclers has put approvals for packaging with fluorinated "forever chemicals" on hold, citing ...