While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues ...

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OPINION: "Recycling doesn't address any of plastic's human and environmental impacts. It's essentially another form of ...

The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

The rigid yet biodegradable plastic outperforms not only alternative biodegradable options, but plastic itself for mechanical ...

As the global plastic treaty collapses, India’s floods and microplastic crisis expose a policy vacuum. Can India turn its ...

As California writes plastic waste rules that would affect advanced recycling, Resynergi says it will leave for a more ...

Since COVID-19, even drinks bottles made of recycled plastic – the most commonly recycled plastic item – have become less viable. The recycled plastic to make them is 83% to 93% more expensive than ...

The European Union is at risk of missing its plastic packaging recycling targets, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) said on Tuesday, warning an incoming ban on exports of trash to poorer nations ...

Polymer Matters sees is making a significant investment in high density polyethylene reuse to produce milk jugs with recycled ...

The company says “char,” a byproduct of its chemical recycling process, is being commercialized under the Tacfiller name and ...

Georgia Tech scientists use mechanical force to break down PET plastic, paving the way for cleaner, faster recycling.