They are durable, cheap and everyday life is now hardly imaginable without them: plastics. More then 400 million metric tons ...

Properly sort and recycle plastic waste collected from households.And they lived happily ever after.……Or so it seems, that is ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste are generated worldwide every year. Scientists are working tirelessly on new methods to recycle a large proportion of this waste into high-quality ...

Once seen as a solution to the plastic waste problem, the process has been plagued by economic and technological difficulties ...

A new approach to plastic recycling being explored at Penn State could make the process more efficient by using tiny ...

A squat, light-colored building in Tigard, Oregon, was supposed to be part of a game-changing new solution for the global plastics industry. Called Regenyx, this recycling facility took in polystyrene ...

Single-use plastic might just be the most insane act of collective self-harm humanity commits every single day. Each year, the United Nations Environment Programme estimates that we discard a ...

End-of-life plastics generated by the automotive industry present a complex challenge for recycling and waste management systems. Modern vehicles are composed of approximately 10% plastic by mass, a ...

Material choices, colours and pack components influence recycling value. For waste pickers, those decisions can affect what ...

Process converts blended textile and plastic waste into virgin-quality recycled PET, proving scalability across conventional ...

This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News. HOUSTON—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business that’s failed three fire safety inspections and has yet to ...