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

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

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 ...

The rigid yet biodegradable plastic outperforms not only alternative biodegradable options, but plastic itself for mechanical ...

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

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

Dissolution: an innovative recycling technology that dissolves plastics, purifies them, and recovers polymers.

The National Weather Service is advising SoCal residents that a “winter-like storm system” will make its way to the region ...

Polymer Matters sees is making a significant investment in high density polyethylene reuse to produce milk jugs with recycled ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's Earth Week and the ABC7 I-Team and ABC News have new details on their efforts to track plastic bags. A previous joint investigation found that several plastic bags which were ...

Bamboo is a highly renewable resource, and its cellulose fibres can be turned into a hard, mouldable plastic for use in cars ...