With technology in place and food-grade PP in the stream, the missing link in circularity is brand action. Industry leaders ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a way to break down plastics into their basic components, potentially revolutionizing ...

UTA chemists explain how plastic pyrolysis works to breaks down plastic waste into molecules that be used again ...

Plastics Recyclers Europe has released a warning about the state of the European Union (EU) plastic recycling industry, urging policymakers to introduce further import controls and enforce existing ...

Republic Services, widely known as a solid waste and recycling company, eventually wants to process north of 90 percent of all recycled plastics the company collects around the country instead of ...

(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 ...

Plastics Recyclers Europe has noted the slowest growth in Europe’s plastic recycling capacity ‘in years’, blaming a decline in domestic production, increases in imports, and company closures due to ...

Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, ISM, UMR 5255, F-33400 Talence, France Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, ICMCB, UMR 5026, F-33600 Pessac, France ...

Global Recycling Day Date: This year, Global Recycling Day falls on Tuesday. Global Recycling Day, held annually on March 18th, is a day dedicated to acknowledging and promoting recycling as a ...

The plastic then gets shredded into smaller pieces to facilitate the pyrolysis process. Unlike traditional recycling, it needs only minimal sorting. Chemical recyclers operating pyrolysis plants ...

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

Enzymatic and microbial degradation is a promising method of plastic recycling. Landfills, environments where plastics are an abundant resource, are crucibles of bacterial evolution. Liyan Song ...