You may have heard that recycling plastic grocery bags can jam up machinery, but what might not be as well known is that ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Although many Americans dutifully deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, many of those materials, including flexible films, multilayer materials and a lot of colored plastics ...

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 recycled ...

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. From sandwich bags ...

It's Earth Week, here's how consumers and companies are trying to improve waste management across the country.

Researchers at Virginia Tech are exploring processes that might greatly increase the recycling of one of the world's most-produced plastics. Ph.D. candidate Adam McNeeley and his advisor, Alumni ...

Environmentalists and some state lawmakers say the process does more harm than good. Plastics producers are pushing back.

A new process that 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 ...