A breakthrough technology that uses carbon dioxide instead of water solves one of the biggest challenges in plastic recycling — turning used polyolefin packaging films into clean, food-safe materials.

Recovery rates for plastic film jumped between 2022 and 2024, but bottles were recovered for recycling at lower rates than ...

Polystyrene — the plastic America loves to hate — wants a second chance. Used in foam cups, packaging peanuts and the molded ...

Plastic overcapacity in China and additional regulations in Europe have created complications in a sector where supply is not ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste are generated worldwide every year. Scientists are working tirelessly on new methods to recycle a large proportion of this waste into high-quality ...

One possible solution that’s emerged in recent years is advanced recycling. Advanced recycling, also called chemical ...

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According to the Washington-based Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), the 2024 U.S. Post-Consumer Plastic Recycling Study finds that at least 5.1 billion pounds of postconsumer plastic generated ...

When California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed suit against Exxon Mobil and accused the oil giant of misleading the public about the effectiveness of plastic recycling, many of the allegations ...

A US nationwide bottle deposit program could increase recycling of PET plastic to 82 percent, with nearly two-thirds of all PET bottles being recycled into new bottles, at a net cost of just a penny a ...

Our whole system is built to reward recyclability. But what actually matters is how much we’re manufacturing in the first ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. When I called Wayne DeFeo and told him I was considering ...