Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

New studies suggest the energy efficient and eco-friendly approach could help reuse millions of tons of plastics.

Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something useful ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected ...

Flotation separation techniques have emerged as a promising solution to the escalating challenge of plastic waste recycling. By utilising the inherent differences in plastic surface properties, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sorting plants in recycling usually do not recognize black plastic, which is why it is sorted out instead of being recycled.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

A$11.2m in joint federal and NSW funding will expand facilities to process hard-to-recycle plastics, including soft plastics ...