The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

Most people assume that if it looks like plastic or cardboard, it's fair game, but a single grease-soaked pizza box or a ...

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

An idea the EPA is floating—to stop classifying a plastics recycling technology as a type of incineration—would ease ...

At least three dozen facilities will open their doors as part of the Recycling in Action campaign organized by the ...

There, in a class called Climate and Energy Ventures, he met Jan-Georg Rosenboom, a postdoc who had developed a chemical ...

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 ...

Last week’s report on California’s abysmal plastics recycling rates made it clear that the state, and individual citizens, need to do more to reduce the amount of the waste going into landfills, ...

This collaboration between four RASEI Fellows shows how electricity can be used to impart ‘superoxide powers’ to oxygen gas molecules from air, enabling the efficient recycling of PET plastics. In ...

Recycling bags in Mecklenburg County is a little different after county leaders took action in response to a Channel 9 ...

Investigative journalist John Stossel investigates why recycling plastic is counterproductive. He speaks with science writer John Tierney about why it would be cheaper and more environmentally ...