Many large consumer product companies are falling short of the plastics recycling targets they set several years ago. Observers say this failure has contributed to hard times for the companies that ...

After the collapse of soft plastic recycling program REDcycle nearly three years ago, it's been almost impossible for individuals to recycle soft plastics in Australia. But supermarkets and councils ...

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The plastics industry considers chemical recycling a key technology for boosting low recycling rates, but some companies are warning that unfavorable government regulations risk "chilling" investments ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...

When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

Bales of shredded plastic material are stacked in a warehouse with two people in hard hats talking in front of them as a third person drives a forklift carrying a bale. Bales of used plastic at ...

Alex Jordan received funding in in the past from TotalEnergies. He has worked on projects to create PP-PE block copolymers. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...

A new study out of China backs what many have already said: global plastic recycling is stagnant in the face of rapidly growing production. Researchers at Tsinghua University peg the global plastic ...

A new large-scale soft plastics recycling facility will be able to prepare waste plastic packaging to be turned back into rigid plastics or food grade soft plastics. It has capacity to process nearly ...

Aduro Clean Technologies' patented HCT process could revolutionize plastics recycling by handling dirty, mixed feedstocks at lower costs and higher yields than pyrolysis. Its upcoming ...