Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum ...

The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council says its multi-year research into chemical recycling for healthcare packaging shows ...

While single-stream recycling is convenient, it has downsides. Contamination, such as food residue, plastic bags and items that can’t be recycled, can degrade the quality of the remaining material, ...

So, what makes plastic recycling so difficult? As an engineer whose work focuses on reprocessing plastics, I have been exploring potential solutions. In cities that use single-stream recycling ...

Single-stream ... plastics through mechanical reprocessing, typically done at separate facilities. One promising mechanical method for recycling mixed plastics is to incorporate a chemical called ...