For years, the plastic industry’s narrative about recycling has been falling apart. Research and media investigations have revealed that it doesn’t make economic sense, and that petrochemical ...

The agency is moving toward resurrecting a proposal from the first Trump administration to ditch Clean Air Act regulations.

A study by Iowa State University researchers found that using industrial soap to clean plastic in recycling transferred ...

The Ocean Recovery Alliance, headquartered in Hong Kong, has released “Towards Circular Plastics: Assessing the Impact of Recycling Technologies in Tackling Plastic Pollution,” a report that assesses ...

JINAN, China, Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A well-known international group conducted rigorous worldwide evaluations on both domestic and international suppliers in the same industry. After ...

Potentially harmful chemicals can contaminate untreated water used in recycling plants to clean plastics before they're ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of plastic are produced globally every year. New research shows how that waste can be turned into something useful.

Plastic Back has partnered with a U.S.-based recycler to scale its innovative low-temperature chemical recycling technology, which converts hard-to-recycle plastics like PVC into valuable byproducts.

The petrochemical firm plans to invest $200 million to expand chemical recycling capacity at its Baytown and Beaumont, Texas, facilities. The ExxonMobil facility in Baytown, Texas, will be one of two ...

JINAN, China, Sept. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, Niutech, a global leader in continuous pyrolysis technology, officially announced the successful signing of a product sales contract with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Successful recycling requires some care. Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images Every week, millions of Americans toss ...

Researchers use a novel process involving engineered Escherichia coli to turn plastic waste into levodopa, a frontline treatment for Parkinson’s disease.