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

Plastic waste surrounds daily life, from food containers and grocery bags to shampoo bottles and medical supplies. Much of it ends up buried or drifting into ecosystems because recycling it is slow, ...

Using the quirky physics of plasma, this torch instantly converts mixed plastic waste into chemical compounds that can be recycled for other projects. Reading time 2 minutes Why sort plastic when you ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

New method efficiently converts mixed plastic waste into a product that could have a range of applications, according to scientists Scientists in the US and China say they have developed a one-step ...

Dr. Young-Hoon Song (right), Head of Center for Plasma Process for Organic Material Recycling at KIMM, and Dr. Dae Hoon Lee (left), Head of the Nitro-Future Initiative Global Top Reserch Lab. The ...

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In March, Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, announced independent price assessments of mixed plastic scrap for the United States and Europe, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of its ...

Refinity plans to use a fluidized bed plastic scrap conversion technology developed in Finland to commercialize the conversion of mixed plastic to chemical precursors. Image courtesy of Innventure Inc ...

In various cities and states, plastic bag bans have taken hold as a way to reduce pollution and prevent excess waste from harming the environment. But what differences have the laws made in helping ...