The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway also used by fungi.

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

A pilot plant built to develop PVC recycling technology is going online at Solvay's site in Tavaux , France. The European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers has invested more than $3 million in the ...

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 ...

The facility, located at TotalEnergies’ Grandpuits complex, has the capacity to process 15,000 tons of plastic per year.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient of vinegar, using sunlight. The breakthrough offers a promising new approach ...

Although many Americans dutifully deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, many of those materials, including flexible films, multilayer materials and a lot of colored plastics ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Tossing everything into the blue bin (or however it’s sorted in your area) feels like a good deed for the planet. People ...