Reclaimers of a variety of resins talked about broader market struggles and considered ways to grow domestic demand for PCR.

GR3N's breakthrough new process to address current hard to recycle PET waste while meeting virgin-like quality Schneider Electric's software-defined automation system enabling operational agility to ...

Speakers at the Paper and Plastics Recycling Conference in Chicago discussed plastic film recycling initiatives and roadblocks. From left to right: Scott Fidler, manager of commercial recycling ...

Recycling bin filled with plastic bottles emphasizes waste management and environmental awareness. Image in public domain.

“Microplastic particles are currently found almost everywhere – in water, food, fish, and even breast milk,” says Artūras Torkelis, a PhD student at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). He ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern ...

Samsara Eco plans to tailor microscopic organisms to retrieve materials from electronic waste.

The use of plastic has skyrocketed over the past decade. Recent statistics reveal that in 2021, each person in the European Union (EU) generated an average of 36 kg of plastic packaging waste.