Tylenol could potentially be made greener and cheaper with the help of bacteria. Scientists were able to use a bacterial ...

Most people who separate their plastic waste for recycling assume the bulk of it will in fact be recycled. But current ...

The joint project brings terahertz imaging into real-world recycling environments.

Alterra president Jeremy DeBenedictis sees the facility as a solution to plastic pollution, seeks to ease neighbors' worries ...

Here's a rather novel way to keep trash out of landfills: engineering biologists at the University of Edinburgh have ...

Scientists have figured out how to turn plastic waste into the painkiller acetaminophen using specially engineered bacteria.

Curbside recycling in Oregon is about to get easier starting in July. A state law is taking effect designed to modernize the ...

Scranton residents may begin combining cardboard and paper recycling for pickup in the same container starting next week, a change stemming from the city’s recently approved recycling processing ...

A successful collaboration involving a trio of research institutions has yielded a roadmap toward an economically viable process for using enzymes to recycle plastics.

This research could represent the first documented case of paracetamol production from plastic waste using E. coli bacteria.

Discover the amazing process of recycling millions of waste plastic bottles into large, durable PVC pipes through a remarkable manufacturing process. In this video, you’ll see how discarded plastic ...

With genetic tweaks, E. coli turned 92 percent of broken-down plastic into acetaminophen, charting a path to upcycle plastic waste sustainably.