A team of chemists may have found a way to solve the plastic recycling problem - and it starts with a little help from nickel ...

Not all plastic is the same. Old yogurt cups and milk jugs, for example, don’t play well together when being turned into new ...

One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern ...

In the U.S., about 26-27 million tons of plastic were sent to landfills in 2018 and 2019, according to the EPA.

The age of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste may soon be over. The secret weapon? A cheap catalyst made from nickel that ...

Plastic recycling will change in England from 2027, when many plastics that previously ended up being incinerated will be ...

A federal judge rejected ExxonMobil's contention that nonprofits hadn't sufficiently argued the oil company's statements ...

As part of a new web-based initiative, the Waste & Resources Action Programme is seeking to hear from manufacturers and suppliers of construction sector products containing recycled plastic. WRAP has ...

For the experts and entrepreneurs who favor a broad definition of recycling, it’s obviously better to turn a plastic bag into a flower pot than to put it in the garbage.

The Trump administration recently removed a major roadblock for chemical recycling, an unproven set of technologies that the oil and plastic industries are pitching as a panacea to the world’s plastic ...

A convoluted credit system allows companies to label virgin plastic as recycled. Here's how it works.