One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Kara Pochiro, spokesperson for the Association of Plastic Recyclers, notes in a statement provided to WIRED that recycling is regulated like any other industrial process in the US.