So far, recycling efforts haven't lived up to the hype, with only about 9% of plastic items getting recycled. An estimated 12 ...

Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is ...

ECOCCUBE uses 100% recycled waste plastic as its core material. WES-Tec Global relies on a proprietary process it calls ...

The PRecycling project aims to recover high-quality polymeric materials enabling up to 100% recycled content incorporation in ...

The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Nuclear Research Institute recently unveiled the new structure, the ...

Scientists turn waste polyethylene into stronger, multifunctional materials using innovative two-step modular assembly ...

In a landfill, a plastic bottle can take more than a thousand years to break down. But a new process can transform polyethylene plastic in days, using bacteria to eat the waste and then turn it into a ...

Australia's first large-scale soft plastics recycling facility is processing huge loads each day, turning waste into a useful ...

Researchers create supercapacitors from waste PET plastic bottles that could power electric vehicles and electronics within 5 ...

Pending policies that demand more recycling cannot offset problems of high costs and competition from cheap virgin polymers ...

Paper, yard trimmings, wood, and other materials all end up in municipal landfills in significant quantities, and yet no one ...

This work turns what would otherwise be an agricultural liability into a potential input for advanced manufacturing.