A breakthrough method for chemically recycling acrylic—one of the world's most widely used plastics—has been developed by ...

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 ...

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

The agency is moving toward resurrecting a proposal from the first Trump administration to ditch Clean Air Act regulations.

Water used to wash recycling materials in the study became progressively darker as it was reused. Photo courtesy of Greg ...

One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and those variations in composition necessitate sorting out waste before ...

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 ...

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The transition toward a circular economy relies heavily on the mechanical capability to process diverse waste streams into ...

The facility, which can process up to 38,000 tonnes of plastic annually, is set to open this year.

Plastics are inescapable in our daily lives. The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment, however, are as problematic as the plastics are useful. A research team has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mixed plastics are held in an iron recycling bin behind a small general store in Derby, Indiana. Many parts of the United States ...