Not all plastic is the same. Old yogurt cups and milk jugs, for example, don’t play well together when being turned into new ...

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

A team of chemists has discovered how to transform PET plastic waste into BAETA, a material that captures CO2 with remarkable ...

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

In the U.S., about 26-27 million tons of plastic were sent to landfills in 2018 and 2019, according to the EPA.

The Foodservice Packaging Institute updated its toolkit to help create recycling education campaigns. Stakeholders underscore ...

Of course the city of St. Louis’ alleyway recycling dumpsters didn’t work. They had the wrong kind of feedback loops.

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 ...

Chemists at the University of Copenhagen have developed a method to convert plastic waste into a climate solution for efficient and sustainable CO2 capture. This is killing two birds with one stone as ...

Wipe containers are super functional, and this still applies when you run out of wipes. Here's how you can use soft or hard wipe containers around the house. This is rarely more true than it is of ...

September is a great time to declutter and reset. Here are 10 things you can remove now before the cold weather sets in.

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a nickel-based catalyst that transforms hard-to-recycle plastics into ...