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

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, ...

Is trying to recycle plastic a waste? Meet the scientists working to find new solutions We can design and make amazing things with plastic; it’s much harder to un-make them.

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

Recycling is often presented as one of the simplest ways to help the planet. Toss your old cans, bottles, or appliances in ...

Here are our key takeaways from our investigation: Plastics industry had "serious doubt" recycling would ever be viable Starting in the late 1980s, the plastics industry spent tens of millions of ...

A new report from Greenpeace found that people may be putting plastic into recycling bins — but almost none of it is actually being recycled. Meanwhile, plastic production is ramping up.

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 ...

Plastics recycling also usually requires plastic that's never been recycled before — called virgin plastic — as used plastic is weak, Kaufman said. “It does not make much of a dent.” ...

Here & Now 's Jeremy Hobson speaks with Jamie Garcia, polymer chemist at IBM, about how to make plastic that's easier to recycle and ways to improve the plastic recycling system.

We just aren’t recycling the materials that we need to recycle to address climate change as well pollution. America landfilled 27 million tons of plastic in 2018 but only recycled 3 million tons ...

The vast majority of plastic that people put into recycling bins is headed to landfills, or worse, according to a report from Greenpeace on the state of plastic recycling in the U.S. The report cites ...