One possible solution that’s emerged in recent years is advanced recycling. Advanced recycling, also called chemical ...

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 ...

Ever wondered where your plastics end up? A PET bottle can be washed, shredded, melted and given a second life. But most ...

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Although many Americans dutifully deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, many of those materials, including flexible films, multilayer materials and a lot of colored plastics ...

Researchers have developed a process that may help advance plastic waste recycling. A team of scientists from the University of Pittsburgh have optimized a low-cost process called pyrolysis to ...

The Centre County Refuse and Recycling Authority is expanding its operations due to a new AI sorting system that enables the plant to process more tonnage a week.

Order and disorder of bubbles in a surface foam. Image by Kempf EK – Own work, CC BY 4.0. By using ‘green catalysts’, Northwestern University researchers have succeeded in breaking down and rebuilding ...

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 ...

Republic Services is constructing a polymer processing center in Allentown that will handle plastic recycling for its Northeast region, with operations expected to begin in early 2027. The facility ...

After the scheme collapsed in 2022, many Australians were left wondering what to do with their bread bags, chip packets and ...