A new tax which forces retailers to pay for materials such as plastic used in packaging could make food and drink more ...

Republic Services, Inc. is producing recycled plastic flake from its Las Vegas Polymer Center for use in sustainable ...

Innovative approaches to recycling plastic waste are discussed, highlighting the impact of chemical mixtures and extrusion on ...

SC Johnson CEO Fisk Johnson laid out the business case for laws to control plastic waste. "Regulation is inevitable in my view. It's just a question of when." ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

Adelaide, Australia-based Ocean Kind, which recycles plastic from end-of-life fishing gear for use in manufacturing, has ...

However, with photochemical recycling, an LED light selectively splits stable chemical bonds in the polymer, allowing ...

The recycling symbol on that container doesn't necessarily mean it can go in your curbside bin. Here's how to decode those plastic recycling numbers.

Troy University professor Shaoyang Liu has been awarded a $534,194 NSF grant to develop a method for detecting toxic ...

Bangladesh has a growing network of PET bottle recycling factories, but single-use plastics continue to be discarded and overlooked, clogging waterways and polluting rivers and the sea. Now, a factory ...

Imagine you’re filling up 100 bags of coffee. You’re using beans from a few different providers — 10 percent of the beans they sent you are decaffeinated and the rest are caffeinated. However, you ...