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 ...

The Trump administration recently removed a major roadblock for chemical recycling, an unproven set of technologies that the oil and plastic industries are pitching as a panacea to the world’s plastic ...

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, ...

PureCycle Technologies and UpSolv are advancing commercial-scale solvent-based recycling, targeting polypropylene and ...

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 3, 2025 / For decades, the world has struggled to balance the economics of plastic ...

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 3, 2025 / Market inflection points are often hard to recognize until they’ve ...

Chemical recycling, also known as advanced recycling, is an umbrella term for industrial processes designed to use plastic waste as a feedstock to create fuel and new plastic products.

Mafalda de Freitas, the megaplastics program director at the Center for Marine Debris Research at Hawaiʻi Pacific University, ...

See how little of Boise’s waste actually gets recycled, and how much plastic that could have been recycled ends up in the landfill instead.