The organization is out with a new report that breaks down the challenges and opportunities that face the resin recycling ...

Last August, I learned of a new study that revealed that the human brains studied were nearly 0.5% plastic by weight. Let ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum ...

A new study from Tsinghua University highlights the widening gap between plastic production and recycling, with global recycling rates stagnating at just 9 percent.

Cutting down on the production of virgin plastics is essential, campaigners say, in the face of such low reuse rates. View on ...

The amount of plastic being recycled around the world is stagnant at less than 10% with most new plastic still made from ...

energy-efficient alternative to traditional plastic recycling. Most plastic waste, especially polyethylene terephthalate (PET)—which is commonly found in bottles, food containers, and polyester ...

A new paper run in Communications Earth & Environment titled “Complexities of the global plastics supply chain revealed ...

These techniques involve using electron beam accelerators to irradiate post-consumer plastics to recycle them and to more easily reform them into other products. “ Irradiating materials is no longer ...

For years, local governments and manufacturers have relied on recycling as the answer to keep plastic waste from accumulating. However, despite their efforts to sort and separate recyclables ...

Pete Keller of Republic Services gives a tour of the company’s new Polymer Center designed to turn post-consumer plastics ...