Plastic has become a ubiquitous part of modern life—in water bottles, shopping bags and car dashboards. But once discarded, ...

This approach is far more carbon- and energy-efficient than conventional methods, according to the researchers.

A process called Alkaline Thermal Treatment (ATT) has been tested to turn mixed plastic ...

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Considering the climate crisis and worldwide plastic pollution, many people believe that recycling materials, in particular plastic, is the solution to our problems. Recycling can reduce resource use, ...

Current methods to recycle plastics often use expensive catalysts, harsh conditions and produce toxic byproducts. New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled ...

When California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed suit against Exxon Mobil and accused the oil giant of misleading the public about the effectiveness of plastic recycling, many of the allegations surrounded ...

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 ...

Plans for a plastic film recycling facility in Darlington have been approved, with developers saying the project could create ...

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