In the public’s mind, and to many governments and industry groups, recycling happens any time a used product is refashioned into something new. It’s this definition that allows so many T-shirts, tote ...

That explains the excitement around a chemical plant that will start commercial operations this year in northeast England. In ...

“Our administration has tried to address improper recycling as an education issue,” said DaSilva. “The City of East ...

After a long day of party prep, the last thing you want is to spend hours scrubbing pots, pans, and serving dishes.

The polystyrene in #6 plastic items can be found in many household products, such as drinking cups. Once the polystyrene is ...

Researchers have discovered that carbon black in black plastic enables efficient recycling when exposed to focused light. The ...

It turns out that the black plastic lid atop your coffee cup has a superpower. And the Stache Lab at Princeton Chemistry, which uncovered it, is exploiting that property to recycle at least two major ...

Biomass: According to an American Chemical Society Journal article, recycling plastic can effectively address plastic waste ...