Potentially harmful chemicals can contaminate untreated water used in recycling plants to clean plastics before they're ...

New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern ...

Flotation separation techniques have emerged as a promising solution to the escalating challenge of plastic waste recycling. By utilising the inherent differences in plastic surface properties, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Successful recycling requires some care. Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images Every week, millions of Americans toss ...

The facility, which can process up to 38,000 tonnes of plastic annually, is set to open this year.

Researchers at the university in New York have combined four detection methods in an attempt to measure recycled content in a ...

Plastics are inescapable in our daily lives. The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment, however, are as problematic as the plastics are useful. A research team has ...

Tossing everything into the blue bin (or however it's sorted in your area) feels like a good deed for the planet. People ...

Recycled plastics are promoted on everything from water bottles and fleece jackets to shopping bags and yogurt cups: "This ...