The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, headquartered in Singapore, and Firstar Fiber Corp., headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, have announced a three-year collaboration to develop an integrated recycling ...

When recycling plastic bottles, check to see if they say "crush to conserve" on the label. ... Instead, opt for glass or hard plastic bottles that you can refill and use daily.

With a U.S. recycling rate of 30 percent, PET bottles are not considered among hard-to-recycle plastics, but NAPCOR said it still sees the new type of MRFs as a way to increase their collection.

Several Northern European countries recycle more than 30 percent of their plastic, because they have government subsidies and limited landfill space. In the United States, the price of oil will ...

The process also works with mixed plastics which are notoriously hard to recycle. Details of the research are in a new report published in the peer-reviewed journal Science .

A new recycling plant is designed to process this hard-to-recycle plastic using what’s called supercritical steam—water heated to a high temperature and pressure—as molecular scissors ...

Reynolds Consumer Products, Lake Forest, Illinois, has announced that the Hefty EnergyBag program has diverted over one million pounds of hard-to-recycle plastics from landfills. The program is ...

Sorting and recycling plastic is notoriously hard—but this AI could help. Barely 5 percent of all plastic intended for recycling facilities ends up in a new product. By Andrew Paul.

Au contraire. Recycling technologies are advancing rapidly; recent studies, for instance, show that we're soon going to be capable of making a zero-waste cell phone with all-recyclable components ...

But while recycling experts say paper and metal products are fairly easy to recycle, plastics — even the No. 1 and 2 items Boiseans separate from Styrofoam and plastic film — pose more of a ...