HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

Plastic is cheap, but it’s an ecological, environmental, and human health disaster that actually costs Americans over $1 trillion a year, according to some estimates. By 2040, plastic waste management ...

Although the need for effective waste management has been recognized for decades, human and environmental health challenges associated with plastic waste are not only growing but also accelerating.

CPTech's Sandwich facility pioneers the conversion of plastic waste into Sustainable Aviation Fuel, aiming to significantly ...

Researchers at Monash University have developed a new membrane technology that could make chemical recycling of plastics ...

A broken plastic chair from a household, used for many years and eventually discarded, may once have been sold ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

By optimizing the process for large-scale applications, the researchers aim to ensure it can handle vast quantities of plastic waste. "Our technology has the potential to significantly reduce plastic ...

Over 3 million tons (2.7 metric tons) of plastic bags, sacks and wraps in the United States went to landfills in 2018, ...

Environmentalists and some state lawmakers say the process does more harm than good. Plastics producers are pushing back.