Lexington’s recycling center can not take plastic bags. The new effort will turn plastic bags collected into a bench for Lextran riders.

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That explains the excitement around a chemical plant that will start commercial operations this year in northeast England. In principle, it can take any kind of plastic waste, including mixed plastics ...

This begs the question: If you’re going to pay for a plastic bag, can you get more than one use out of it? And even if your grocery store doesn’t charge for plastic bags to transport all of ...

The best crossbody bags for travel are roomy and secure enough to store everyday essentials without weighing you down. After hours of researching the best options on the market, our winner is the ...

This is what researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been working on. They discovered a way to “upcycle plastic waste into higher-performance plastics”, publishing their results in the ...

The plastic that is turned in is being upcycled into Trex decking ... The Trex Challenge is a creative way to eliminate grocery bags and other plastic film from our waste stream, which need to be ...

trash bags, credit cards, even those ubiquitous yellow rubber duckies. It works on all of them. It turns out that the black plastic lid atop your coffee cup has a superpower. And the Stache Lab at ...

Recycling of Post-Consumer Waste Polystyrene Using Commercial Plastic Additives, ACS Central Science (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.4c01317 Hanning Jiang et al, Upcycling Poly(vinyl chloride ...