America sends 146+ million tons of trash to landfills yearly, led by food waste and plastics. Latest EPA stats, recycling ...

What if we could help the global plastic waste problem and the transportation industry with the same technology? A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory is ...

Plasma donation and testing company BioLife Plasma Services LP in has invested $4 million to expand its testing laboratory in Hoover, Ala., and buy equipment to recycle biohazardous plastics waste ...

University at Buffalo researchers are leading efforts on a new, innovative way to recycle these plastics through solvent-based recycling, or solvent purification. Their work has the potential to ...

To upcycle the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory invented a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than those of the starting material ...

The soft plastic recycling industry wants more waste to stay here, saying too much material is being sent overseas.

A Houston electronics recycler has spent millions to upgrade plastics processing equipment — creating a new ability to separate different resins — in a move aimed at expanding domestic interest and ...

Rwanda has emerged as one of the leaders in combating plastic pollution, implementing groundbreaking initiatives that transform waste into valuable resources. ALSO READ: World leaders adopt ...