Every year, some 5.6 million metric tons of plastic packaging winds up in household waste in Germany after being used just ...

To fight decreasing curbside collection volumes, speakers at the Plastics Recycling Conference emphasized embracing hard ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kevin A. Schug, University of Texas at Arlington and Alexander Kaplitz, University of ...

The report looks at how California and other states can improve PET thermoform circularity through innovation, policy alignment and industry commitments.

Trade groups, including the New York Business Council and the American Chemistry Council, say it does not account for “advanced” or “chemical” recycling, a process which breaks plastic ...

It’s a much more elegant way to tackle plastic recycling issues.” To conduct the new study, the researchers used a molybdenum catalyst and activated carbon — both of which are inexpensive, abundant ...

a new initiative to increase visibility into the plastic recycling process in the U.S. and its myriad economic and environmental benefits. During the month of May, material recovery facilities ...

Today, there are a lot of ways in which recycling doesn ... the same principles. The process is amazingly simple and increases the amount of recyclable plastics dramatically.

And the method works with mixed plastics, selectively recycling only polyesters. With its selective nature, the process bypasses the need to sort the plastics before applying the catalyst -- a ...

CalRecycle’s draft rules detailed how plastic packaging producers would avoid plastic ending up in the landfill, but retailers and farmers said they wouldn’t work as written. California Gov.

Gavin Newsom is ordering a redo of the state's landmark plastic ... process to lobby against provisions that were decided in the legislative debates, including limits on chemical recycling and ...