You may have heard that recycling plastic grocery bags can jam up machinery, but what might not be as well known is that ...

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a new method to recycle mixed ...

The Japanese company says it initially will target used automotive materials such as airbags with its depolymerization technology before scaling up. Image courtesy of Toray Industries Inc. Tokyo-based ...

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 ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. When I called Wayne DeFeo and told him I was considering ...

A European trade group has issued limited bottle-to-bottle recycling approval for a nylon material used as a barrier in some plastic containers. European Plastics Recyclers Aisbl (EuPR), Brussels, has ...

The quality of recycled plastic tends to be higher when the waste is pre-sorted by households compared with plastics ...

Circular11 was established by two friends after they got involved in a waste management project in Nepal ...

Recycling is often promoted as a cornerstone for environmentalism. But in practice, most recyclable material never enters the system at all. Global plastic production has surged over the past 70 years ...