So far, recycling efforts haven't lived up to the hype, with only about 9% of plastic items getting recycled. An estimated 12 ...

Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is ...

The PRecycling project aims to recover high-quality polymeric materials enabling up to 100% recycled content incorporation in ...

We’ve managed to accumulate so much plastic trash that it’s daunting to think about what could be done with the tons upon tons of nonbiodegradable waste. And as much as we are trying to scale back our ...

The USPP has released its 2024-2025 Impact Report, detailing the steady progress being made toward a more circular plastics ...

Scientists turn waste polyethylene into stronger, multifunctional materials using innovative two-step modular assembly ...

Australia's first large-scale soft plastics recycling facility is processing huge loads each day, turning waste into a useful raw material.

In a landfill, a plastic bottle can take more than a thousand years to break down. But a new process can transform polyethylene plastic in days, using bacteria to eat the waste and then turn it into a ...

Researchers create supercapacitors from waste PET plastic bottles that could power electric vehicles and electronics within 5 ...

ECOCCUBE uses 100% recycled waste plastic as its core material. WES-Tec Global relies on a proprietary process it calls ...

6. The 'Seedling' indicates the packaging it is stamped on is industrially compostable. Compostable plastics which carry this ...

Pending policies that demand more recycling cannot offset problems of high costs and competition from cheap virgin polymers ...