A study out of Scotland has found that the plastic recycling process produces large quantities of microplastics, which then get washed into city water systems or the ocean.

What if recycling plastics were as simple as flicking a switch? At TU/e, Assistant Professor Fabian Eisenreich is making that ...

That process is called mechanical recycling, in which recycling is sorted to separate the plastic. Then, the plastic is chopped, melted in an extruder, and shaped in an injection molder.

Hoffer Plastics' sustainability efforts have led to less than 1% waste to landfill, 50% reduction in water usage and ...

Discover how various species of insects, bacteria, and fungi are evolving to break down plastic waste. Researchers are ...

For one, the process also looks very close to trash incineration – so there is a question of whether the extracted product is plastic or trash. Of course, this a problem that the moonshiners ...

Recycling a single ton of plastic can save up to 5,774 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy, 16.3 barrels of oil, and 30 cubic yards of landfill space. In comparison to producing virgin plastic, it can ...

One phrase that’s become quite contentious is the “full life cycle” of plastic. Basically, some groups are hoping to go ...

Even as evidence mounts that plastics pollution is a global health problem, the U.S. worked to scuttle an international deal ...

How will the new recycling scheme involving Woolworths, Coles and Aldi work? And what are some upsides for shoppers if we had ...

Plastics recyclers are used to finding all types of contaminants when they break bales to feed into their processes. For ...