BUFFALO, N.Y. — Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters of it ends up in landfills or the environment. So how can plastic recycling be more ...

Water used to wash recycling materials in the study became progressively darker as it was reused. Photo courtesy of Greg ...

Plastics are inescapable in our daily lives. The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment, however, are as problematic as the plastics are useful. A research team has ...

For yoghurt and quark pots, around 15% of recyclable material is lost. NTCP, TNO and partners are investigating how to ...

One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and those variations in composition necessitate sorting out waste before ...

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 ...

Equipment maker Lindner and Procter & Gamble say their solvent-based Flexloop process can remove impurities from recycled polymer chains. The secondary resins obtained through Flexloop not only comply ...

Researchers have developed electrochemical methods that break down waste PET plastic, the material in most disposable water ...

The fire burning, the banjo playing, the stories, and the sweet aromatic smell of grains; there might not be anything more Americana than the moonshiner, risking it all to provide their families some ...