After years of stakeholder conversations, the new voluntary certification standard aims to “build trust” in a polarizing industry, SCS Standards says.

In the future, microorganisms could help return hard-to-recycle plastics to the recycling loop. Nick Wierckx, a molecular ...

Mixed-plastic electronics waste could be a valuable source of reusable polymers, a new study led by Illinois Sustainability Technology Center scientists suggests. The team has developed the first ...

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Peer into a recycling bin and you'll almost certainly see a problem. Plastic trays, bottles, films all tangled together, ...

Aduro Clean Technologies has successfully completed initial testing of synthetic turf as a feedstock for its proprietary hydrochemolytic technology (HCT), demonstrating a potential solution for a ...

Waste Management, the nation’s biggest recycler, is spending $1.4 billion to become more efficient at recycling. How it’s ...

If e-waste disposal had a late-night infomercial, it might go something like this: Congratulations! You bought an iPhone 6S! Now you can spend hours Instagraming and making Siri talk dirty to you. BUT ...

The composite materials industry has experienced significant growth in sectors such as aerospace, railway, naval and ...

With the increasing population worldwide, waste generation is multiplying uncontrollably. Municipalities find it challenging to manage such wastes for further separation, recycling, transformation and ...