Discover the fascinating process of recycling plastic scrap into reusable materials. Watch how discarded plastic is collected, sorted, and transformed through advanced techniques, reducing waste ...

More important, you do have to remove the paper labels if you're recycling plastics, because the recycling process for metals and plastics is different.

Rohnert Park residents worry the new Resynergi plastic recycling facility will degrade air quality and pose safety concerns.

Current methods to recycle plastics often use expensive catalysts, harsh conditions and produce toxic byproducts. New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be ...

A months-long fight against a proposed plastics recycling facility on the W.R. Grace and Co. Columbia campus continues as residents gathered Tuesday to share information and tips for the next steps… ...

What if recycling plastics were as simple as flicking a switch? At TU/e, Assistant Professor Fabian Eisenreich is making that vision a reality by using LED light to both create and break down a new ...

Nearly all black plastics get sent to the landfill or get incinerated because their pigment makes them difficult to sort in plastics recycling plants. As a result, the recycling industry pays ...

Chemical recycling on the other hand can process a wider variety of mixed plastic wastes, including contaminated and low quality wastes, by breaking them down to their molecular components, ...

A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley.

The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling — but not much is being recycled, and this method won’t curb the crisis.