Most people are aware that plastic waste is a problem. Almost all types of plastics that we use in our everyday lives are ...

Although many Americans dutifully deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, many of those materials, including flexible films, multilayer materials and a lot of colored plastics ...

German study proves automated sorting can recover nearly half of hospital plastic waste for recycling into new products ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

A heavy-duty loader scoops a mass of mixed recyclables into its steel bucket and then, gingerly, the operator deposits the materials into a sorting machine. Old cardboard and plastic bottles blended ...

French start-up Fairmat recently announced a new round of funding to support the industrial scale-up of its solutions. Last January, at JEC World 2025, it unveiled two major innovations: FairPly, a ...

You probably toss your plastic bottles and cardboard boxes into that blue bin with a sense of purpose. Maybe even pride. It ...