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

A squat, light-colored building in Tigard, Oregon, was supposed to be part of a game-changing new solution for the global plastics industry. Called Regenyx, this recycling facility took in polystyrene ...

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

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

Just one word: plastics. Two new reports demonstrate the importance of American plastics to the success of overall U.S. manufacturing and economic growth. And a third report foreshadows the next ...

When you buy a new iPhone, Apple takes it back when you're done with it. When you finish a bottle of Coke in Germany, the manufacturer pays for its recycling. So why does your 4,000-pound SUV – ...

The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) is expanding its Recycling is Real advocacy campaign in a new video series spotlighting the recycling work taking place at Plastic Ingenuity in Madison, WI ...

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

Scientists have converted waste cooking oil into various recyclable plastics with exceptional strength — and some were even durable enough to tow a car.

Toyoda utilised its proprietary material modification technology to meet automotive part quality standards. Credit: Eduard Goricev/Shutterstock. Toyoda Gosei has introduced a new recycling method ...

A Texas environmentalist curious about the fate of her city's recycling dropped Apple AirTags in with her plastics to see what happened to them after they were picked up. Brandy Deason, a climate ...

Vehicle manufacturing accounts for 10 percent of the EU's overall consumption of plastics. European Union governments and parliament representatives reached an early morning deal to mandate that at ...