We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

You may have heard that recycling plastic grocery bags can jam up machinery, but what might not be as well known is that ...

Although many Americans dutifully deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, many of those materials, including flexible films, multilayer materials and a lot of colored plastics ...

Equipment maker Lindner and Procter & Gamble say their solvent-based Flexloop process can remove impurities from recycled polymer chains. The secondary resins obtained through Flexloop not only comply ...

A catalytic process developed by researchers at Peking University is transforming how the plastics industry approaches PET ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Now, an alarming new study has found that even when plastic makes it to a recycling ...

Order and disorder of bubbles in a surface foam. Image by Kempf EK - Own work, CC BY 4.0. Order and disorder of bubbles in a surface foam. Image by Kempf EK - Own work, CC BY 4.0. By using ‘green ...

It can be tricky to know what to do with soft plastics – but it's vital you don't put them in your usual recycling bin as ...

Plastic is in practically everything, from packaging to products to clothing and furniture. It is a cheap, durable technology that improves health and food safety, has made countless products more ...

A new report by NGOs International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) and Beyond Plastics scrutinizes the chemical recycling industry that is on the rise in the U.S. and other parts of the world, ...

It can be hard to know which plastics can be recycled and what to do with the ones you can't recycle ...