The age of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste may soon be over. The secret weapon? A cheap catalyst made from nickel that ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern ...

A team of chemists may have found a way to solve the plastic recycling problem - and it starts with a little help from nickel ...

First, the mixed recyclables are shredded and crushed into smaller fragments, enabling more effective separation. The mixed fragments pass over rotating screens that remove cardboard and paper, ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...

Mechanical recycling, the practice of creating granules from crushed plastic to be reused, is no longer as common of a process in dealing with today’s plastic items.

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a groundbreaking nickel-based catalyst that could transform the way the ...

Australia's soft plastic recycling is poised to resume through a new industry-led program backed by major supermarkets and ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the ...