Global Production Every year, the world produces a staggering 400 million tons of plastic. This sheer volume of production is ...

The vast majority of the world’s plastic isn’t recycled because it’s currently cheaper to produce new plastic. But nature has evolved in response. Several species of insects, bacteria, and fungi can ...

That explains the excitement around a chemical plant that will start commercial operations this year in northeast England. In ...

IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute says mechanical recycling of plastic offers climate benefits.

The hottest potential new currency lies in our trash bins, Arthur Huang says, and he’s built a portable recycling plant to prove it. His solar-powered Trashpresso turns plastic waste into small ...

A 2016 behavioral economics study found that when consumers think their waste might be recycled, they worry less about the amount of trash they generate and produce more of it.

It's a hard plastic signified by the number "1" inside the triangle. Once a PET bottle goes to a recycling plant, Exchange for Change's Ms Smalley said, they're "sorted, washed and shredded into ...

These techniques involve using electron beam accelerators to irradiate post-consumer plastics to recycle them and to more easily reform them into other products. “ Irradiating materials is no longer ...

Black plastics often contain particularly high levels of flame retardants, according to a new study. The chemicals are often used in electronics, but recycling has brought them to products that ...

Considering that only one-tenth of all plastic waste is recycled, new technologies that can help tackle this growing problem are urgently required. Catalytic recycling techniques, such as ...

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