An ambitious project at UC Berkeley aims to take plastic and break it down to create new plastic. Scientists at Berkeley said they have discovered a new way to vaporize plastic bottles and bags. What ...

It all started in 2014 when Dave Hakkens, then a student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released his design for a plastic recycling machine to the world for free. The aim was to make plastic ...

Plastic is just about everywhere, piling up in streams, landfills, and even our bloodstreams and placentas. The United Nations agrees that something must be done, given both the excess of waste and ...

A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding.

At a New Hampshire facility, agricultural plastics are compacted together. Photo courtesy Guy Crosby/Community News Service Natalie Bankmann is a reporter for the Community News Service, part of the ...

At the Republic Services Recycling Center on Cole Road, waste whirs on a conveyor belt past workers who scramble to pull contaminants off the line. Trash goes in barrels at the workers’ sides, and ...

Canadian organization plans to assess and enable recyclability of plastic scrap generated at 10 construction site projects in western Canada. Garron Dalby, who is serving as a site monitor as part of ...

BASF has partnered with Endress+Hauser, TechnoCompound and the Universities of Bayreuth and Jena in Germany to study improving mechanical recycling of plastics. The German Federal Ministry of ...