It all started in 2014 when Dave Hakkens, then a student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released his design for a plastic recycling machine to the world for free. The aim was to make plastic ...

Chemical recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste represents a vital strategy to transform discarded plastic into high‐quality feedstocks, thereby fostering a circular economy and reducing ...

6. The 'Seedling' indicates the packaging it is stamped on is industrially compostable. Compostable plastics which carry this ...

Pending policies that demand more recycling cannot offset problems of high costs and competition from cheap virgin polymers ...

A new process that converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern ...

Plastic film has been notoriously difficult to recycle. The material is excluded from many curbside recycling programs because of its reputation as a “tangler,” as plastic film can get caught in ...

One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and those variations in composition necessitate sorting out waste before ...

Recycle B.C., the non-profit responsible for residential packaging and paper product recycling throughout British Columbia is expanding its ‘pink box’ recycling program for flexible plastics to ...

Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.

Austria’s Steinbeis Polyvert GmbH uses an array of technology provided by Sesotec to sort and recycle postconsumer plastic. Sesotec says it has helped Steinbeis Polyvert become a producer of ...