That instinct to drop anything plastic, paper or cardboard into the recycling bin is hard to shake, but it's also one of the ...

Conflict in Iran has raised the cost of oil and downstream products like virgin plastic. That's a boon for recycled plastic, ...

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 ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the same strict air pollution standards as incinerators. Related video above: ...

At the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University​, an incredible collaboration is taking place between a ...

DW investigative environmental journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor look into the idea of using chemical recycling to deal with the problem of Europe’s plastic waste. The post Is chemical recycling ...

Among the various plastic recycling methods being explored, one promising approach is biological plastic recycling, also ...

A sweeping state recycling bill calls for scores of companies to stop using plastic wrap when packaging products, which ...

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Scientists turn plastic waste into fuel using sunlight and water in a new study that could change how we manage pollution and ...