A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected ...

Korean firms collaborate on chemical decomposition technology that recovers carbon fibers with 95.7% efficiency for global ...

Welcome to the economic future of the United States: Big Tech, Big Data — and Big … Recycling? That’s the conclusion of a new analysis from the American Chemistry Council (ACC), which says that if ...

Digital watermarking and AI boost flexible plastic sorting while EPR policies fund infrastructure to overcome recycling challenges ...

Electric vehicles promise cleaner air and lower emissions, but the batteries that power them pose a mounting waste and resource challenge. A new generation of recycling technology is now closing that ...

The extraction technology was developed at the Ames National Laboratory on the Iowa State University campus through its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mixed plastics are held in an iron recycling bin behind a small general store in Derby, Indiana. Many parts of the United States ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alterra's liquefaction plant in Akron, Ohio, uses pyrolysis as its chemical recycling process to manufacture new plastics. The ...

It isn't easy to recycle high-voltage batteries from electric cars, but Porsche wants to take a stab at it. The plan: extract raw materials from old EV batteries to make fresh ones for its own ...

The escalating environmental and economic challenges posed by plastic waste have spurred a diversity of research into advanced recycling technologies. This field encompasses a range of approaches—from ...

Waste Management on Thursday cut the ribbon on WM Recycling South Florida, a 127,000-square-foot processing plant in Pembroke Pines that company and city officials say will sharply expand the region’s ...