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

The Shocking Truth About Global Plastic Recycling Rates The statistics around plastic recycling are absolutely devastating.

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

In this episode on Tekniq, we observe the meticulous machining process of recycling plastic bottles, followed by the ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

The Washington-based Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) has announced the first-ever Recycling in Action month, a new initiative the organization says will increase visibility into the plastic ...

Have you tossed plastic into a recycling bin recently? There’s a large chance that material won’t be recycled. That’s ...

Welcome to the economic future of the United States: Big Tech, Big Data — and Big … Recycling? That’s the conclusion of a new analysis from the American Chemistry Council (ACC), which says that if ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2. A ...

The first refinery built along the Houston Ship Channel in 1918 shut down its petroleum production this spring, laying off hundreds of workers, but owner LyondellBasell had no intention of closing the ...

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 ...