Plastic pollution is an endemic global problem, in large part because the petroleum-based products don't break down naturally ...

Not all plastic is the same. Old yogurt cups and milk jugs, for example, don’t play well together when being turned into new ...

The age of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste may soon be over. The secret weapon? A cheap catalyst made from nickel that ...

A team of chemists may have found a way to solve the plastic recycling problem - and it starts with a little help from nickel ...

It wasn't intended to indicate plastics' recyclability. But consumers misinterpreted it, and the industry encouraged them.

One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern ...

At the Smithers Advanced Recycling Summit, experts from S&P Global, ExxonMobil and the U.S. Plastics Pact said weak demand, ...

This requires wide-scale behavioral change around consumption and disposal, in conjunction with wide-scale adoption of a new ...

More MRFs are adding technologies to sort the material, but some brands and manufacturers are still switching away from the ...