Researchers developed a catalyst-free recycling method that uses only water and oxygen to break down durable plastics such as ...

Efforts to combat plastic waste have gotten derailed by the divide over chemical recycling.

Plastic recycling could become far more effective thanks to a new technique that restores the strength of damaged engineering ...

A study from the University of Manchester into the effects of polymer cross-contamination on the outcome of mechanically recycling plastics has found that the presence of contaminants radically alters ...

A new chemical process can transform three of the most common plastics into high-purity hydrogen without sorting them first. The technique operates at much lower temperatures than traditional ...

Current methods to recycle plastics often use expensive catalysts, harsh conditions and produce toxic byproducts. New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled ...

Researchers at Colorado State University have developed a process to transform naturally occurring, highly stable carbon ...

Because most recycling processes require plastics to be sorted by type first, only 9% of discarded plastic is actually recycled; 79% is dumped in landfills and another 12% is incinerated, releasing ...

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

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 ...

Many paper packages contain a hidden plastic coating that improves performance but makes recycling much more difficult.

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