AI and spectroscopy enhance plastic recycling sorting accuracy and efficiency for sustainable manufacturing practices.

In the late 1940s, following wartime-driven innovation, the mass production of inexpensive plastics revolutionized American ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

BASF has partnered with Endress+Hauser, TechnoCompound and the Universities of Bayreuth and Jena in Germany to study improving mechanical recycling of plastics. The German Federal Ministry of ...

In this Q&A, Adam Lovewell, a 2025 Waste360 40 Under 40 Award winner, discusses how he designs systems that solve clients’ ...

Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered a process that could change how we handle plastic waste ...

New bill aims to boost plastic recycling by removing regulatory barriers that have slowed industry investment and growth ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your climate impact. But recycling plastic will not address the plastic pollution ...

The fire burning, the banjo playing, the stories, and the sweet aromatic smell of grains; there might not be anything more Americana than the moonshiner, risking it all to provide their families some ...

Recycling is not a myth — it’s a movement that’s keeping materials in use, creating jobs and protecting Wisconsin’s environment.

A discovery led by the University of St Andrews has found a way to turn ordinary household plastic waste into the building block for anti-cancer drugs.

Scientists invent process that converts plastic bottles into paracetamol, which is a common drugstore painkiller used in ...