Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It’s one of society’s worst kept secrets: Most plastic thrown ...

Black plastics pose an identification problem for sorting machines at recycling facilities, as the sensors can't see them. Canon has developed a system that users lasers and tracking tech to identify ...

Van Dyk Recycling Solutions uses vertical integration to tackle the global plastic waste crisis through advanced processing.

Recycling Technologies plans to place its first chemical recycling machine at Binn Eco Park, Perthshire, Scotland. Capable of recycling 7,000 metric tons (more than 7,700 short tons) per year of mixed ...

In promising news for our humanity-burdened planet, a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge say they’ve built a machine that transforms both CO2 and plastic waste into sustainable fuel ...

Recycling is not a myth — it’s a movement that’s keeping materials in use, creating jobs and protecting Wisconsin’s ...

Landfills are overflowing with plastic trash. Serial inventor Jonathan Rothberg’s Protein Evolution found a solution: using AI to create enzymes that can recycle old polyester textiles into a material ...

India-based Steer World is offering what it calls a first-of-its-kind method to recycle crosslinked polyethylene (PEX) plastic using its custom Omega Twin-Screw Extrusion Technology. PEX is used in ...

If it feels like you’ve been hearing about recycling plastic all of your life, you might be right. The first plastic recycling mill was built in 1972[1], about the same time as the Environmental ...

Since China’s 2018 ban on the import of most plastic waste for recycling, Japan has faced a major challenge. Prior to the ban, the country was shipping nearly half of its roughly 1.5 million tonnes of ...