It all started in 2014 when Dave Hakkens, then a student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released his design for a plastic recycling machine to the world for free. The aim was to make plastic ...

6. The 'Seedling' indicates the packaging it is stamped on is industrially compostable. Compostable plastics which carry this ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can ...

One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and those variations in composition necessitate sorting out waste before ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

Editor’s note: This article, distributed by The Associated Press, was originally published on The Conversation website. The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and ...

The Truth About Plastic Recycling examines the complexity and effectiveness of plastic recycling. Despite the plastic industry's promotion of recycling as a solution to the plastic waste problem, much ...

Ineos Inovyn, a business unit of London-based global petrochemical firm Ineos, has started up what it calls the “next generation recycling pilot plants” in Belgium designed to bolster Europe’s ...

Solvay SA and Kobelco Eco-Solutions have signed a joint venture agreement with a view to set up an industrial unit of Solvay’s Vinyloop Polyvinyl Chloride recycling process in Japan, under the name ...

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

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the first ...

Pending policies that demand more recycling cannot offset problems of high costs and competition from cheap virgin polymers ...