Bio-based plastics often end up in recycling streams because they look and feel like conventional plastic, but the contamination of these compostable products makes it much harder to generate ...

Recycling technology provider offers its plastic scrap density separator tanks in three sizes. In a Herbold Meckesheim tank, higher density plastics like polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyvinyl ...

Large amounts of mixed plastics arise during recycling of household refuse, electronics, automobiles, etc. High-grade black plastics in particular cause problems in subsequent sorting aimed at ...

I was suspended about 10 feet above your trash on a platform 3 feet wide when I realized that as much as I knew about recycling, I knew nothing at all. Take Styrofoam. All I’ve ever heard about ...

Bio-based plastics such as polylactic acid (PLA) were invented to help solve the plastic waste crisis, but they often end up making waste management more challenging. Because these materials look and ...