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

Northwestern’s team turned to hydrogenolysis, a process that uses hydrogen gas and a catalyst to cut strong carbon-carbon ...

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

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

A new pilot plant in Ohio, with the support of a trade group, aims to test a system to recycle PVC. A company called Plastic ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating, and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can ...

Using the quirky physics of plasma, this torch instantly converts mixed plastic waste into chemical compounds that can be ...

The inconvenience of separating plastics for recycling may soon be a thing of the past. A team of Korean researchers has ...

KIMM’s research team has succeeded in developing the world’s first ultra-high-temperature plasma torch powered entirely by ...

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

The process is amazingly simple and increases the amount of recyclable plastics dramatically. The problem is that the industry is so regulated that there is no assurance that what these advanced ...

As plastic piles up in landfills, New York authorities on the state and local levels are shifting their focus from recycling to reduction.