The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

For two decades, the federal government has classified the heated chambers used to break down plastic waste as incinerators, ...

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) announces the second year of Recycling in Action—an initiative designed to show the public what happens after ...

The EPA is reconsidering air pollution regulations for chemical plastic recycling facilities, prompting concerns from ...

Current methods to recycle plastics often use expensive catalysts, harsh conditions and produce toxic byproducts. New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled ...

Nearly all black plastics get sent to the landfill or get incinerated because their pigment makes them difficult to sort in plastics recycling plants. As a result, the recycling industry pays little ...

A study by Iowa State University researchers found that using industrial soap to clean plastic in recycling transferred ...

When items travel along a conveyor belt at a sorting facility, they move past a fast-spinning magnetic rotor at the end. This ...

New chemical reactions aren't everyday phenomena, but that's exactly what researchers in Australia discovered, and it could ...

At least three dozen facilities will open their doors as part of the Recycling in Action campaign organized by the ...

The fire burning, the banjo playing, the stories, and the sweet aromatic smell of grains; there might not be anything more Americana than the moonshiner, risking it all to provide their families some ...

The COtooCLEAN site is intended to process post-consumer polyolefin film waste, including PE and PP.