Last week’s report on California’s abysmal plastics recycling rates made it clear that the state, and individual citizens, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic is processed at Exxon Mobil's chemical recycling plant in Baytown, Texas, in October 2023. (Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty ...

PVC, aka vinyl or polyvinyl chloride, is a versatile component found in many of the products we use every day — from siding and pipes to medical supplies to car upholstery and record albums. Along ...

One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and those variations in composition necessitate sorting out waste before ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

Learn how UNR’s Environmental Health & Safety supports plastic film recycling with new campus drop‑off locations and ...

The statistics around plastic recycling are absolutely devastating. In 2024, only 9% of plastic waste was recycled globally, while 91% of plastic waste is believed to not be recycled. Even worse, the ...

On trails in Grand Canyon National Park, I mostly pick up empty water bottles. It seems a job that will never be obsolete. Shouldn’t we have learned by now that refilling water bottles is the way ...

Discover the challenges of global waste management as this video explores the dramatic increase in population and its impact ...

Dublin-based Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c25714) has added Recycling of PVC and Mixed Plastic Waste to its product offering. The book ...

Westlake Global Compounds and Marietta, Ohio-based Westlake Dimex, two business units of Houston-based Westlake Corp., have launched Choose Pink, a pilot polyvinyl chloride (PVC) recycling program ...