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By Claire Asher Plastic pollution has rapidly escalated into a global environmental crisis that threatens ecosystem function ...

To accelerate plastics recycling, the old adage "If you build it, they will come" simply doesn't hold up. Making headway ...

A successful collaboration involving a trio of research institutions has yielded a roadmap toward an economically viable process for using enzymes to recycle plastics. The researchers, from the ...

Nearly all black plastics get sent to the landfill or get incinerated because their pigment makes them difficult to sort in plastics recycling plants. As a result, the recycling industry pays little ...

A squat, light-colored building in Tigard, Oregon, was supposed to be part of a game-changing new solution for the global plastics industry. Called Regenyx, this recycling facility took in polystyrene ...

A new approach to plastic recycling being explored at Penn State could make the process more efficient by using tiny ...

ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith visits a University of Houston lab for a rare look at one way plastic could be recycled. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse ...

・Researchers developed a catalyst-free recycling method that uses only water and oxygen to break down durable plastics such as polyethylene and polypropylene. ・Microscopic droplets generate reactive ...

Plastic waste continues to pile up across the planet, filling landfills and drifting into oceans. A new study offers a striking shift in how that waste might be handled. Researchers report that common ...