Chemists at Argonne National Laboratory in DuPage County have worked out a new way to recycle certain plastics infinitely, a discovery that could change the way we recycle containers like those used ...

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is investigating complaints from an advertising watchdog that "recyclable" claims on much-touted high density polyethylene toothpaste tubes from ...

Most U.S. curbside recycling programs are designed to process only #1 PET and #2 HDPE plastics, despite the widespread use of the chasing arrows symbol on many products. Misplaced items like plastic ...

A new capital support competition has been launched by the Waste & Resources Action Programme to encourage closed-loop recycling of post-use HDPE plastic bottles in food contact applications, ...

Knowing what you can and can't recycle is important, otherwise you can contaminate a whole bin.

Plastics recycler Envision Plastics is increasing production capacity of the company's EcoPrime brand of food-grade high density polyethylene by 50 percent through a multimillion-dollar expansion.

European plastic packaging and recycling firm is now the majority shareholder in an HDPE bottle recycling operation in Brazil. “Clean Bottle is an established manufacturer and, as a long-standing ...

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

The best way forward is to change the social and economic system surrounding the production of plastic and the management of ...

Sorting plastic is hard; scientists found compatibilizers may enable direct recycling of mixed plastics into 3D-printed ...

This is an excerpt from Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic. An odd symbol, made up of three arrows arranged in a triangle, began showing up on plastic containers across America in the ...