Much plastic waste is soiled and composed of several different layers, making it too complex for the usual recycling method of chopping it into bits before remoulding it. Despite efforts to increase ...

Shell Polymers will use pyrolysis oil derived from recycled plastics to make polyethylene resin at its complex in Monaca, Pa.

Financially too, plastics are expensive: The chemicals in plastic alone cost the US health care system $250 billion in just one year. We can’t recycle our way out of this. Plastic was never made ...

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Dublin, April 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Recycled Plastic Resins Market - Forecasts from 2025 to 2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The recycled plastic ...

The reason: Black plastic cannot be recycled. “The reason is that the machine that sorts the recycling is looking at the plastics on a conveyor belt, and it cannot tell the difference between a black ...

A new report released today by the U.S. Plastics Pact urges a dual approach—ambitious voluntary action and bold public policy—to expand the use of postconsumer recycled content (PCR ...

Global plastic recycling rates are now stuck at under 10 per cent, a comprehensive new study shows. Plastic production has exploded in the meantime, creating a "pressing global environmental ...