A new type of adhesive that can be cleanly removed from plastic bottles and packaging before disposal could lead to better-quality recycled plastic, a new study has shown. The adhesives used to ...

The trade war initiated by the United States’ Trump administration has led to a drop in the price of virgin plastic, hurting the market for plastic collected from the environment for recycling. Crude ...

In case you missed it, in August of this year there were more than 8 billion of us on the planet. Although seven billion or ...

Trump has long railed against paper straws, and his 2019 reelection campaign sold Trump-branded reusable plastic straws.

I recently threw away my trusty black plastic spatula after a scientific paper claimed that such utensils may contain dangerous levels of flame-retardant chemicals. It turns out the researchers ...

Plastic rope manufacturing starts with the recycling of old plastic scrap, which is crushed and melted to create new materials. This molten plastic is then extruded and spun into strands that are ...

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2.

The main question was if 20 HK cents were enough of a reward for people to turn in their plastic bottles. “Today, the behaviour is not towards recycling, and we are trying to change that ...

This move represents the first time that the used cooking oil has been processed at the Geelong refinery’s catalytic cracker and polypropylene plant to produce a mass-balanced biobased polymer, a ...

But that’s just about 17.5% of our total waste stream every year, and about half of what we could be doing. If New Yorkers recycled paper, glass, plastic and metal to their maximum potential, about a ...

Recently, with plastic waste pollution becoming more severe and exacerbating climate change in turn, other countries have begun to mandate the use of recycled materials to reduce overall plastic ...

Plaspanel is the be-all and end-all of closed loop recycling. The product is manufactured from 100% post consumer recycled plastic waste in high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and can itself be recycled.