A 2016 behavioral economics study found that when consumers think their waste might be recycled, they worry less about the ...
Plastic recycling is notoriously inefficient, but that provides lots of room for improvement. Technology company ...
Dive into the fascinating process of turning waste plastic bags into durable plastic ropes. It all starts with the collection ...
Plastics are undeniably useful materials that have found their way into virtually all human activities. However, with yearly global plastic production exceeding 400 million tons, the environmental ...
When recycling, those highly crystalline ... Zhou said they want to further explore the power of electrocatalysis in plastic deconstruction by experimenting on more challenging types of plastic ...
Microbial technology offers one useful recycling alternative. Anaerobic digestion, based on the human gut, can cut waste ...
Traditional recycling processes struggle with mixed plastics, often requiring tedious and costly sorting. By efficiently handling blends, this new approach sidesteps one of the major hurdles in ...
The controversy is specific to the company’s advanced plastic recycling technology, which I wrote about here last May, and which has led ExxonMobil to become one of the largest recyclers of ...
One Tucson recycling center has closed and another is threatened, even as the city builds a facility for reusing plastic ...
In 2019 alone, the production and incineration of plastic led to GHG emissions equivalent to those from 189 coal-fired power ...