The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

Reclaimers of a variety of resins talked about broader market struggles and considered ways to grow domestic demand for PCR.

Digital watermarking and AI boost flexible plastic sorting while EPR policies fund infrastructure to overcome recycling challenges ...

As good citizens, we diligently fill the recycling bins provided by our local authorities with all manner of plastic trays, boxes, bottles and bags. But as these bins fill up quicker and quicker each ...

Samsara Eco plans to tailor microscopic organisms to retrieve materials from electronic waste.

Experts identify multiple interlinked reasons why recycling is failing: Inefficient recycling plants – Processes such as ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected ...

During important processes like cleaning, fragments of plastic are lost as microplastics. This means the system itself creates plastic waste, and we urgently need to rethink the design and operation ...

At the annual event, CalRecycle Director Zoe Heller discussed the ever-evolving legislation that will establish an EPR ...