Plastic is one of the world’s most ubiquitous materials, essential to daily life as we know it. Production is growing at a rate of 3.4 percent—three times faster than our global population growth.
The seven recycling symbols on plastic packaging reveal more than you might think, but not all are recycled the same way in ...
Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...
Most of us grew up sorting our trash with the quiet confidence that the plastic we set out on the curb would find a second ...
PVC and polyethylene pipe producers are boosting recycling efforts, with Return Polymers launching operations near Dallas and Advanced Drainage Systems expanding in Georgia. These initiatives aim to ...
When the Center for Climate Integrity released its report about plastic recycling, one might have expected the environmentalist non-profit to encourage the practice. Anyone raised in the late-20th and ...
The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can ...
The Vinyl Institute of Canada (VIC), headquartered in Niagara Falls, Ontario, has announced Project Win-Finity, a national pilot program stewarded by the association and aimed at recycling ...
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – A new University at Buffalo study finds that people in the United States generate similar amounts of plastic packaging waste regardless of income, education level or where they live.